HYPEBOT FEATURES:
The Pirate Bay Four Found Gulity, Will Appeal
- Higher iTunes Prices Meant Lower Sales Last Week
- New Chart Scans Web For Top Talk On Tracks
- Edison Infinite Dial Study Shows Growth And Potential Of Online Media
- Macrovision Buys Muze, Seeks Metadata Dominance
- Court Rejects Harvard Plea For RIAA Webcast
- Kill The Record Labels Documentary Trailer
MORE INDUSTRY NEWS:
- As states struggle to cover revenue shortfalls, taxes on digital downloads are back on the table. (cNet)
- Complaints from customers have led Time Warner to end experimentation of metered billing for internet usage. (ars)
- Radio trade site FMQB is getting a makeover which is scheduled to go live at 3PM ET on Friday.
- Rondor Music Publishing has promoted Kevin Hall to Senior Vice President, Urban Music. (press release)
- Korea adopts the three strikes policy. (Korea Times)
- Payola: Once a dirty word, now the basis of internet radio.
Why
have internet radio stations started charging bands to appear on their
playlists – and do their pay-to-play schemes even work? (Guardian UK) - Somewhat like the just launched We Are Hunted, The Wiki Chart tracks data from a bunch of different sources of music (blogs, Billboard, YouTube, iTunes, radio, imeem, last fm lots more) and come up with a weekly top 40 of the most buzzed about tracks.
