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Music Industry News: GigsWiz Ticketing, LimeWire Against Pirates, Kiss YouTube Shutdown & More

French Study: Music Streaming More Popular Than Downloading (Evolver) GigsWiz adds social ticketing features. (MusicAlly) LimeWire Disavows New 'Pirate Edition' (WSJ)  If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA. (Cracked)  iTunes Store: How It Rose, Why It Matters.. Continue reading [https://www.h

  • French Study: Music Streaming More Popular Than Downloading (Evolver)
  • GigsWiz adds social ticketing features. (MusicAlly)
  • LimeWire Disavows New 'Pirate Edition' (WSJ)
  • If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA. (Cracked)
  • iTunes Store: How It Rose, Why It Matters. (MacTalk)
  • SoundCloud says that more than 100 third-party applications for mobile, desktop and the web have been created on its open platform.

6a00d83451b36c69e20133f58067d2970b-800wi More Music Industry News & Commentary:

  • Echo Nest founder says "Bands should not have to pay to play at Midem" and offers a solution. (Echo Nest)
  • Google Adds Some Snark to Facebook Open-Data Battle (Epicenter)
  • The Harry Fox Agency has expanded Nat Annamalai’s role to Vice President, Business Development & Revenue Assurance.
  • BT and TalkTalk granted judicial review of UK’s Digital Economy Act. (Music Ally)
  • Ask the indie professor: Is it strictly a man's world on tour? (Guardian)
  • Why Ridiculous Statutory Rates For File Sharing Are Inappropriate. (TechDirt)
  • My Chemical Romance 'scrapped 28 boring songs' (NewsBeat)
  • RadarMusicVideos, which helps match pvideo producers with musicians and labels, were chosen yesterday as the best tech start-up by a panel of six judges in the TechCrunch Europa awards.
  • Aspiro sees sharp increase in music streaming and downloads. (Music Week)
  • WB musicman Danny Gould dies. (Variety)
  • How to do band reunions. (Guardian)
  • We7 And TDC: Two More Steps On The Path To Transformational Innovation/ (Forrester)
  • The official YouTube video channel of American glam legends Kiss has been closed for breaching copyright laws – just weeks after bassist Gene Simmons controversially called for all rights breakers to be sued and jailed. (RockRadio)