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Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Monday September 18th, 2006

Itunestiedgreen– Consumer complaints are mounting over glitches in Apple’s "revolutionary" iTunes 7 upgrade. (TechWeb) Some call it "buggy bloatware", but that hasn’t stopped hackers from upgrading software that strips it of DRM. (Wired.com)

– Anti-DRM lobby Defective By Design is planning a day of action October 3rd.

– Taiwan file sharing site Kudo shuts down after lawsuit. (Reuters)

– In what could give a boost to struggling subscription services, the new Sonos music system upgrade allows listeners to turn off their PC and still access Rhapsody.  (Sonos)

QTrax, the other ad supported download service, has added Warner Music to a pre-launch list that included EMI and The Orchard.

Shins_videoThe Shins are encouraging fans to video tape their Austin City Limits Festival appearance with cameras and cell phones and then upload it to be edited into a concert filmed from potentially hundreds of angles and perspectives. (Current TV)

– A look at Akamai, the company who enables efficient net delivery of the huge video and audio files we’re all getting so used to. (BusinessWeek)

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