Monday’s Music Briefing: Yahoo Coupons, $.03 Downloads, FCC & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• EMI Retreats From China & Asia
• 5 Unlikely Music Industry Heroes
• eMusic Tops 4 Million Tracks
• Social Networking By The Numbers
• Columbia Insider Responds To Hypebot’s Ad Prank
• Music 2.0 Week In Review

> Yahoo! Music is now offering re-purchase coupons to users effected by the shutdown of its download store. (AP)

> IODA distributed tracks at the new Wawawa download store in China
will have an effective price as low as 3 cents each. (paidContent)  A
subscription costs 20 yuan ($2.92) a month for up to 88 MP3s that you
get to keep per month The price is low because illegal downloading is
such a huge problem in China. I’ll be asking some more detailed
questions about the pricing strategy and will rite a follow- up piece
soon.

> Social.fm formerly Mercora has shut down. (Giagom)

> The FCC last week reprimanded Comcast for throttling P2P apps.(ars) Why does it matter to you?  Net neutrality is an issue to watch. If ISP’s start regulating high bandwidth use will watching videos and online music streaming and downloading be next.

> The music industry should embrace illegal file-sharing websites, according to a study of Radiohead’s online experiment, which found that most people grabbed it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little or nothing for a download. (FT)

WORTHY CLICK: Tunipop is bringing a bit of 2.0 to the increasingly important band merhcandise sector.