HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- Ian Rogers On The New Music Business Equation
- Is Music A Good Investment? Whyte vs. Resnikoff
- Zune Cuts Prices, Taps Common For Ad
- K-OS Gives Fans Unreleased Album To Mix
- The Evolution Of Tribal Curiosity
MORE NEWS:
Sony’s digital gamble: Gracenote. (Fortune)- There’s a subscriber revolt at Sirius XM over new combined rates. (ars) The company’s stock fell 20 20 cents pershare at one point yesterday
- Mark Shapiro, the CEO of the Six Flags amusement parks has been named to the Live Nation Board Of Directors. (press release pdf)
French record labels are suing four US companies that offer P2P applications including BitTorrent’s Vuze, Limewire, Morpheus and Shareaza’s SourceForge. (TorrentFreak)- Tennessee has passed an RIAA backed filtering bill aimed at college P2P activity. The Electronic Frontier Foundation vows to fight the measure. (RIAA, EFF)
Nokia’s Comes With Music store in Italy is offering 4 million tracks including many from local artists. Italian artists capture 54% of the country’s sales annually. (press release)- Essay: Why I Hate iTunes. (WNYC Soundcheck)
- Nielson enters the radio ratings business. (FMQB)
- GruvMe: the digital service brings together music, video, games and TV. (press release)
