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The RIAA Actually Blogged This About Someone They’re Suing… on Feb5 2012

The RIAA Actually Blogged This About Someone They're Suing... The RIAA has been suing, appealing, and re-suing file-swapper Jammie Thomas for years - that is, since 2006. Thomas, a mother of four, uploaded 24 songs on Kazaa back in 2005, and over three trials has had penalties ranging from $54,000 to $1.92 million. A fourth [...]

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The Weekend: Sister Sledge, Sony Music, Madonna, Tiesto, Spotify, Facebook, Bon Iver… on Feb4 2012

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The Weekend: Sister Sledge, Sony Music, Madonna, Tiesto, Spotify, Facebook, Bon Iver... These are the stories and developments we're tracking over the weekend. Check back for ongoing updates. Add disco queens Sister Sledge to the list of legacy artists suing their major labels. Sledge is filing suit against Warner Music Group to re-categorize digital sales [...]

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Sports Illustrated Is Now Featuring Indie Bands In Its Swimsuit Issue… on Feb3 2012

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Sports Illustrated Is Now Featuring Indie Bands In Its Swimsuit Issue... What's another thing that has little or nothing to do with sports? That would be indie music, which is why Sports Illustrated is making it a major part of its upcoming Swimsuit Issue. But this is more than just an artist profile here and there [...]

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Remember Rock Band? It Just Cost Viacom Another $383 Million In Losses… on Feb3 2012

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Remember Rock Band? It Just Cost Viacom Another $383 Million In Losses... All that plastic was supposed to save the music industry! Instead, it's now melting down the balance sheets of companies like Viacom... According to financial details just shared by Viacom, the ill-fated acquisition of Rock Band creator Harmonix Music Systems cost the media [...]

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Good Morning! Tunecore, iTunes, MegaUpload, Rhapsody, Kiss, Ticketfly… on Feb3 2012

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Good Morning! Tunecore, iTunes, MegaUpload, Rhapsody, Kiss, Ticketfly... Tunecore is beefing with Amazon, but it's also working on new deals. That includes European service Simfy, which has agreed to pay both recording and publishing streams directly to Tunecore, unlike AmazonMP3. More on that deal ahead. Looks like a glitch in iTunes Match resulted in [...]

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What Else? Tunecore, iTunes, MegaUpload, Rhapsody, Kiss, Ticketfly… on Feb3 2012

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What Else? Tunecore, iTunes, MegaUpload, Rhapsody, Kiss, Ticketfly... Tunecore is beefing with Amazon, but it's also working on new deals. That includes European service Simfy, which has agreed to pay both recording and publishing streams directly to Tunecore, unlike AmazonMP3. More on that deal ahead. Looks like a glitch in iTunes Match resulted [...]

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Angry Birds CEO: If Piracy Is Too High, It’s Probably Your Own Damn Fault… on Feb2 2012

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Angry Birds CEO: If Piracy Is Too High, It's Probably Your Own Damn Fault... It's been official for a while now: the music industry of 2012 is exactly where other industries don't want to end up. Especially the part that includes lawsuits against fans, mispriced content, endless infighting, and disastrous profit-plunges. The comment [...]

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Ditto Music Is Now Offering Free, Emergency Accounts to Tunecore Artists… on Feb2 2012

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Ditto Music Is Now Offering Free, Emergency Accounts to Tunecore Artists... The following is a note from Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons, who are now offering free, emergency accounts to Tunecore customers. On Wednesday, it surfaced that Tunecore-distributed artists have been unavailable since January 24th on Amazon MP3 across Europe. TuneCore is a US company, [...]

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Judge Tells Google: ReDigi Can Fight for Itself… on Feb2 2012

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Judge Tells Google: ReDigi Can Fight for Itself... So how's that Google relationship working out, anyway? Warner Music Group ex-chairman Edgar Bronfman just called 'Google Music' an 'oxymoron,' and trade group IFPI recently broiled the search engine for disproportionate levels of illegal results. All of that follows a blowup over SOPA, where Google and the [...]

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The Latest: Facebook, Cornelius, ReDigi, Google, Vevo, Van Halen, Bronfman, Sony… on Feb1 2012

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The Latest: Facebook, Cornelius, ReDigi, Google, Vevo, Van Halen, Bronfman, Sony... These are the stories we're tracking late in the day. Please check back for more late-evening and early morning developments. Facebook has officially filed for IPO, with a potential raise of $10 million. The filing also unveiled a very healthy, existing balance sheet that [...]