New Music Business Briefing: Radiohead Goes Digital, Webcasters Deal, MySpace Targets Ads & More

>>> Digital holdouts Radiohead has shunned iTunes because it forces acts to sell single songs and cut a deal with the UK’s 7Digital to sell full mp3 albums. (7Digital) >>>. Continue reading

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Britney Spears Parts With The Firm Setting New Speed Record

They’ve had her back as a management client for less than a month and today The Firm issued this statement: "It saddens us to confirm media reports that we have. Continue reading

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New Music Business Briefing: Blunt Sells Via MySpace, AOL Music Relaunched, CD Baby Pays $20M & More

>>> Warner Bros Records will sell the new James Blunt album via MySpace as a $9.99 iTunes download/CD bundle.  Target adds a DVD and priority ticketing to a CD for. Continue reading

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P2P Foe MediaDefender Gets Hacked

MediaDefender which offers record labels and others services like spoofing to fight unauthorized file trading via P2P has been hacked by a group calling itself MediaDefender Defenders and hundreds of. Continue reading

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New Music Business Briefing: SpiralFrog Launches, WinAmp Upgrades, Prince Hires A Sheriff & More

>>> Long anticipated ad supported download service SprialFrog launches publicly today. (SprialFrog) Tell us what you think. >>> Wired’s Listening Post is in love with the new 10th Anniversary WinAmp. Continue reading

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New Music Business Week In Review

>>> A new survey showed that there are actually more active music buyers than there used to be; the problem is that each of them is spending a whole lot. Continue reading

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New Music Business Briefing: Amazon Close, Ringtone Rip-Off, Prince Sues & More

>>> Billboard says Tuesday’s the day for the Amazon mp3 store launch. We hear Tuesday is not a hard deadline but they will launch soon. >>> NY Times tech columnist. Continue reading

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New Music Business Briefing: New Microsoft Watermark, Kayne Tops 50, Mecora Becomes Social.FM & More

>>> Microsoft has patented a new watermark technology called "stealthy audio watermarking,"that can tag songs to track origin and ownership without adding DRM that restricts usage. (PC) Amusing name for. Continue reading

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Help Wanted: Classical Music Archivist

As a service to our readers Hypebot publishes open music industry jobs at no cost. Please send us your job listings via email and you can find more open music. Continue reading

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