Music Biz News: Apple & Pandora Sued Over Apps, Musicians We Lost, CityVille Explodes, Arcade Fire & More

• Apple and a number of iPhone app makers including Pandora were sued Monday for allegedly helping advertisers secretly create profiles of iPhone users, including their location, without their consent. (Epicenter)
• In Memoriam: Musicians We Lost In 2010. (NPR)
• Are you a resident of CityVille yet?  Zynga's CityVille has blown past Farmville and is exlploding on Facebook. It's obviously a great place for bands to be.  Have any Hypebot readers explored marketing music or reaching out to fans on CityVille? We'd love to hear from you.

More Music Industry News & Commentary:

• Vinyl record manufacturing gies green. (Brooklyn Based)
• Heavy Facebook users may have weighty amygdalas (ars)
• Damn the singles! Arcade Fire will remain an "Album Band," Butler says. (RTT)
• Tired of crummy MP3 sound? A new device will make your digital music truly sing. (Slate)
• Pitchfork staff lists their Year In News 2010. 
• RapidShare Shows MPAA/RIAA: We Can Lobby Lawmakers Too – RapidShare discovered that they had been reported by the MPAA and RIAA to the US Government for being one of the world’s “most notorious pirate markets”. Now, RapidShare has hired a Washington based lobbying firm to represent its interests.(TorrentFreak)