Friday’s Music Briefing: EMI Wants $’s, Obama Hearts Zune, Quincy At SXSW & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
Music Industry Layoff Roundup: MTV, Real & More- Pirates Of The Amazon Take Over Download Site
- AIM Indie Trade Group Issues Pinnacle Statement
- Warner Music Pitches ISP License To Universities
- Qtrax Adds Sony BMG To Ad-Supported Service
- Inside The Major Label Negotiations With iTunes
MORE NEWS:
- EMI is continuing to negotiate with the other three major labels to share warehousing and distribution and now its looking for a check in exchange. (FT)
- Tapulous debuts new iPone game with EMI artists and Weezer.
- Mobile music discovery provider Shazam has added 2 million tracks to its catalog which
now tops 8 million. (press release) - In case you didn’t know: How to remove DRM from WMA and other protected files. (ITWorld)
- Is Barack Obama a Zune user? (cNet) One Gizmodo commenter wrote "Duh, he is the candidate of change!" Check out the Zune vs. iPod Prize Fight.
- Quncy Jones will give one of the keynotes at SXSW. (press release) No offense to Quincy but these kind of choices won’t help SX keep the cutting edge crown.
- The Swedish government is considering tougher new filesharing laws. (AP)
- New music web site: MBVMusic.Com, a joint venture between five of the more established music blogs has launched as joint venture of Fluxblog, Largehearted Boy, Said The Gramophone, Chromewaves, and the Catbirdseat. The site features aggregated content from each of the blogs alongside new material from select contributors.
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