Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday February 8th, 2007

>>> China shuts down 205 web sites in piracy crackdown.

>>> Forty years after collaborating with him on the #1 hit "Something Stupid,"
Nancy Sinatra accepts a key role on a station launched by Sirius largely devoted to the music of her father Frank.

>>> For the first time ever the RIAA is being made to pay $50,000 in legal fees for a former  opponent after the courts dismissed the case.

>>> Question for our readers – We admit that we’re puzzled. Digital watermarking allows identification of the origin of mp3’s without restrictive DRM.  It might be an elegant solution to slowing piracy, but no one seems to care.