Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday December 1st, 2006

> The file-sharing service BitTorrent announced some major deals in its bid to transition to selling licensed
online content including films, TV shows and music, starting in
February. (LA Times)

> A critical look inside EMI and possible purchase and restructuring scenarios. (NY Post)

> Does Zune have a chance? 35% of those interested in a Zune device would
be replacing an existing digital music player. Zune was off to a quick start, grabbing 9% of the U.S. digital
music player market in its first week taking the No. 2 spot
from SanDisk’s Sansa (Reuters) Don’t forget to vote in our Hypebot Zune poll on the upper right corner of the blog.

> A new patent filing seems to make the iPod phone inevitable. (Bloomberg)

> Pitchfork and those that love and hate the popular music site. (Slate)

> The state of independent net broadcasting through the eyes of landmark 3WK.com. (St Louis Riverfront Times via RAIN)