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# More Music Industry News: Borders Down, Thumbplay App, Pirate Bay Fines & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/more-music-indsautry-news/
- Published: 2010-06-02T00:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-06-02T00:05:00.000Z
- Description: Borders reports a $33 million quarterly loss. (SEC) Indie digital music distributor IRIS has partnered with MobBase to provide iPhone applications to its labels and their artists. Thumbplay's streaming on. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/06/more-music-indsautry-news.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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- **[![image from mhpbooks.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20133ef9e881a970b-250wi)](http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/borders%5Flogo.gif?ref=hypebot.com) Borders** reports a **$33 million quarterly loss.** ([SEC](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940510/000094051010000011/ex99%5F1q12010earningsrelease.htm?ref=hypebot.com))
- Indie digital music distributor **IRIS has partnered with MobBase** to provide iPhone applications to its labels and their artists.
- **Thumbplay's streaming on demand music app has been approved by Apple** making it, according to the company, the first on all three major platforms (iPhone, Android and BlackBerry) which combined have 85% of the U.S. smartphone market.
- **Big Media Has Trouble Collecting Pirate Bay Fines** – Due to several verdicts against them, The Pirate Bay team were ordered to pay the entertainment industries $6 million in fines. As predicted, actually getting hold of the money is not going to be an easy job for them. Thus far, the debt collecting agency has only seized $30,000 of the total sum. ([TorrentFreak](http://torrentfreak.com/big-media-has-trouble-collecting-pirate-bay-fines-100531/?ref=hypebot.com))
- **Music's New Entrepreneurs** \- From videogames to cookbooks, rockers are experimenting with ways to connect with their fans' hearts and wallets. ([Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/25/smashing-pumpkins-radiohead-drake-business-music-indie-entrepreneurs.html?ref=hypebot.com))