Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday August 17th, 2006

– The RIAA will leave you alone if you die. (Chronicle)

– Wired looks inside mega-file sharing site Pirate Bay whose 1 million daily visitor stats rival YouTube’s. (Wired)

The Swedish government says it will be meeting with Apple over how iTunes‘ DRM violates consumer regulations (Reuters)

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