More Music Industry News: Mininova Goes Legit, Death Row, Open Mics Under Attack & More
- Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go Legal (paidContent) Think this will slow piracy? TorrentFreak offers 10 alternatives.
- Death Row records standoff to continue in court. (Billboard)
- Royalty Collecting Groups’ Fees Shutter Open Mic Venues – Demand fees to compensate musicians and songwriters “just in case” a musician plays a copyrighted song, but rather than pay these huge costs many owners, 50% in St Cloud, Minnesota alone, are deciding to get rid of live music altogether. (ZeroPaid)
- iPhone users spend more money..and not just on Apple hardware. (Fast Company)
- Metal Band Sybreed Asks Fans To Film An Ad For New Album (Dotted Music)
- Mobile downloads a problem for proposed 3 strikes laws. (p2pnet)
- Facebook swipes a users vanity url. (Register)
- The Free Music Archive, another interesting way for new artists to spread their music, adds curated playlists. (ReadWriteWeb)
- Is Apple not worried about unlicensed iPhone lyric apps? (Music Ally)
- Are Entertainment Industry Tactics Working? (MikeMasnick on Techdirt)