Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Monday October 16th, 2006

– EMI’s revenue report for the six months ending September 30th is off a bit, but the promise big releases and better days ahead. (EMI press release)

– The top consumer complaint at Napster: songs purchased there won’t play on their iPod. (USA Today)

– Steve Jobs talks about the iPod/iTunes phenomena and says he’s not worrying about Microsoft’s Zune and other competitors because the iPod design is just so damn cool. (MSNBC Newsweek Online)

– Now that Google has bought YouTube, Time Warner and legal and copyright infringement sharks are already circling. (Guardian UK)

R.I.P. – Freddy Fender (more)