Music industry news from Hypebot:
The big news this week was the opening of the new Amazon.com DRM free mp3 download store. Coverage includes:
- An Overview And First Look
- What The New Store Is…And Is Not
- Analysis & reaction from around the web
- A guest blog on "Why Amazon Will Do Nothing To Help The Music Industry"
- The new site lead the "Top 5 Favorite Places To Buy MP3 Downloads" on OurDigitalMusic
Yahoo Music is scaling back its operations. One source says half the staff was let go last week.
On Oct 2 Starbucks begins giving away 50 million free tracks to promote the launch of the new iTunes wireless store.
Here is some video of WMG’s Edgar Bronfman sharing his vision of the Music Business 2.0. The company’s stock got hammered as the week progressed.
Controversial P2P hub Pirate Bay turned the tables and filed charges in Sweden against several major labels using evidence discovered in the recent hack of MusicDefenders.
Hypebot offered its readers a poll asking which of the new ad supported music services would gain traction and on Friday morning it appeared that SpiralFrog or a huge SF fan may have tried to rig the results.
See ProHipHop’s Hypebot Industry News category for past roundups.
