www.roadrunnerrecords.com -- Want to be in a Dimmu Borgir video? If you live in the Los Angles area, you can be. April 14th thru the 15th they will be doing a video and looking for extras. Send an e-mail to junkerdesigns@yahoo.com containing a photo of you in your armor/costume. ...Read More
www.news.com -- In the past 18 months four major record companies have signed deals with YouTube about artists videos on the site. But bands management says they haven't seen a dime from the companies. Google/YouTube said it paid the record companies - what gives? ...Read More
blogs.cnet.com -- I read the whole blog posting on this, and still can't believe the RIAA is anything more then a bunch of lawsuit happy mobsters. When asked about going after anyone other then small time file sharers, they just resort back to them. Now people should buy all their music legally, but I hope with the threatened pull out of EMI, things might change. ...Read More
www.theregister.co.uk -- EMI has filed to leave the International Federation of Phonographic Industry. There are changes afoot for the IFPI and RIAA. Oct, a chairman said something about "legalising P2P networks" to obtain money. It is crazy right now but you never know what you will get out of this shake up. ...Read More
www.news.com -- It's a full hand of cards for Amazon: the Web's mega-retailer announced Thursday that it will be selling music from Sony BMG Music Entertainment in its Amazon MP3 store. This means that Amazon MP3, which only sells "naked" tracks without any digital rights management (DRM) protection, now has deals with all four major music labels. ...Read More
www.news.com -- The Washington Post decides to stick by its story that the RIAA actually thinks MP3s ripped from legally purchased CDs is "unauthorized" copies, but what they left out is when the person moves the files to a "shared" folder to upload to a P2P site, then it becomes unauthorized. ...Read More
www.reuters.com -- Various items were up for auction including sunglasses and even a pool table. The auction was for the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Foundation. ...Read More
news.com.com -- Is the SpiralFrog model not going to take off? Free Sponsored Supported music site is still working on getting their site running and their backers may push for an IPO. ...Read More
www.theregister.com -- Rick Rubin thinks he has a plan to save the recording business: subscription model. That is correct, Rubin thinks the days of forcing people to buy CDs is generally over with. ...Read More
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