Music Industry News: Kazaa Sold, Boston Hack Day, Pirate Bay Trial’s Last Day, Apple Earnings & More

(UPDATED) Next week's news cycle will start strong with an earnings call from Apple on Monday and other investor calls in the days to follow.  For now, let's just celebrate that its Friday and that we all survived another week of new music industry madness. PS: If you've been thinking about advertising on Hypebot or Music Think Tank, now is the time to get in touch.  We've got a number of unique sponsorship offerings that you may want to get involved in.

• Search marketer Atrinsic has bought what's left of Kazaa. (press release)
• France Will Buy Its Citizens Digital Music Worth €50 Million (paidContent)
• The travelling technology tornado known as Music Hack Day returns to Boston the weekend October 16th and 17th. 300 developers, designers, engineers, and musicians from around the world will gather for 48 hours of on-the-spot music technology creation. Projects range from the whimsical and artistic to the practical and marketable. We'll have details of the hits and misses on Monday.

More Music Industry News & Commentary:

• The Final Day of The Pirate Bay Appeal – After nearly three weeks, The Pirate Bay appeal comes to an end today but not before the defendants’ lawyers have their final say. All lawyers called for their clients to be acquitted on various grounds, citing a recent Spanish verdict, the UK based TV-links case and referring to the E-commerce directive. (Torrentfreak) 
• Apple is holding its 4th Q Investor call Monday, October 18, 2010, 2:00 p.m. PDT/5:00 p.m. EDT. You can watch it live here.
• Terra Music Fest plans a equal parts online and live event. (press release)
• How to avoid the boyband graveyard. (Guardian) 
• Why do people hate hipsters? (Guardian)
• Asthmatic Kitty Talks 'Age of Adz,' Realities Of Being An Indie Label. (Prefix)
• Pandora adds gift subscriptions. (Digital Trends)
• Clever Custom Software Used to Reconstruct First Recorded Sounds. (Atlantic)
• EMI witnesses named as Citigroup deal hopes rise. (Telegraph)
• Where To Build Your Fan Base Online. (DJTech)
• Ke$ha joins the quick-turnaround EP trend with 'Cannibal'. (LATimes)