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Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday December 22nd, 2006

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>>> Sony BMG to pay another $4.25 million to settle DRM/rootkit lawsuit with another 39 states. (ZDNet)

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>>> University of Edinburgh researchers are developing a "personal DJ" which would offer music and  commentary on-line tailored to a listener’s taste. Instead of a DJ millions of nuggets of music trivia would be stored on a database and played using voice-generating software. (Manchester Evening News via RAIN))

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>>> We heard there was mucho reaction in the halls of eMusic yesterday to our commentary on the effect that the upcoming Amazon mp3 store will have on the subscription service. If you missed it, check out the story here and our original piece on Amazon’s plans. eMusic has not responded to our request for comments.

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>>> We will be publishing during the holiday break. We won’t be doing the Daily Briefings, but will publish news and info as it comes in.  In fact, we’re considering dropping the morning roundup in favor of more individual short posts so ya’ll can pick up each headline on you RSS feed or handheld. Tell us what you think of dropping the Daily Briefing and what else we can do to make Hypebot better on ’07.

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  1. Drop the summary and publish the stories as individual items. Much better process. More like real news.

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