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Monday 10.17.16 Music Business News From Around The Web  Does free streaming really reduce piracy when traffic on PBay and YouTube-MP3 surpasses Spotify and Pandora? Updated continuously under our More News tab

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Amazon Will Launch New Music Streaming Service Next Month [Report]

Amazon is so close to finishing its deal with the major labels that it will launch a competitor to Spotify and Apple Music in September, sources tell the Financial Times.. Continue reading

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NPR Exits Anti-Artist Mic Coalition

Last month, after Amazon exited the Google and Pandora backed anti-artist MIC Coalition,  pro-artist advocates set their sights on NPR. Why NPR "who artists have worked so closely with over. Continue reading

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Universal Spent $12M To Win “Pyrrhic Victory” Against Michael Robertson, MP3tunes

Universal Music has been chasing MP3tunes since 2009. Whatever the merits of labels taking legal action music tech companies from Napster to Grooveshark, the cost of these lawsuits are indirectly. Continue reading

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