Monday’s Music Briefing: College P2P Alternatives. Last.fm, Sony & Much More

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• Music’s Week In Review: Wall St, Radiohead 1 Year Later, EMI, Nokia & Much More
• Oct. 15th Is Blog Action Day: Poverty
• Wall Street’s Pain Felt Down On Music Street

MORE NEWS:

• 15% of U.S. universities offer their students a legal download service as an alternative to P2P. Another 17% are either in the process of or seriously considering implementing such a surface. (ars) If true, its  too bad that Napster got out of that business recently.
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  Last.fm has the new Kaiser Chiefs album plus audio commentary from the band a week ahead of its official release.  This follows last week’s Keane exclusive and other recent album premieres including Kings of Leon, Nas and Sigur Ros.
• Now that Sony bought out BMG it is moving to synch the efforts of its recorded music and electronics division. (RedOrbit) This plan can’t hurt marketing efforts for either division. But to really move the dial Sony, needs to get more aggressive with a restructuring of it’s bloated record business.
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  A UK survey that shows piracy down 10% offers labels hope that they are winning the war against music piracy. (Guardian UK)
• Another report on how mp3 players hurt the ears. (Yahoo! Tech)
• A new service uses mobile phones to offer iTunes tagging for broadcast radio. (press release)