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Radio's click-to-buy music service goes titsup - June 11, 2008

Another DAB failure More grim news for the music business, as another potential digital retail channel withers. Radio group Unique will close down its instant music purchasing initiative, blaming the slow take up of DAB for the decision, the FT reports today.
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Country mice oppose Yahoogle - June 9, 2008

'A threat to the dusty back roads of the information superhighway' Even rural America takes issue with this Yahoogle idea.
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EMI hires the Biggest Brain in Sadville - June 9, 2008

Why How desperate is EMI Desperate enough to hire the co-founder of Sadville Amazingly, yes. Not only is a graphics programmer joining the storied British music group as head of "digital strategy" - he cheerfully admits he doesn't know anything about the music business. And he doesn't even like music - he's only bought five albums in the past eight years and three of those are by Rush.
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Competition watchdogs urged to act on 'commercial iPlayer' - June 9, 2008

'snot fair Competition watchdogs are probing Project Kangaroo, the commercial web TV venture set to carry BBC, ITV and Channel 4 programming, amid claims it could suffocate rivals.
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Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing - June 6, 2008

Let's make threatening music together Virgin Media will launch a campaign against illegal downloading next week, when itll begin firing off warning letters to subscribers the BPI believes are sharing copyright music files.
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Gov ready to drop Gowers - June 5, 2008

Music biz hopes so Is the Government edging away from the recommendations made in the Gowers Report The British music business seems to think so - based on perceived nudges and winks from the new Culture Secretary Andy Burnham. Burnham addressed the Annual General Meeting of the non-profit collection society the PPL yesterday - but your reporter found it hard to detect anything as concrete as a policy wiggle. Not yet, anyway.
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Verizon sends text messages to the big screen - June 4, 2008

Don't turn off your mobile in the cinema Verizon will be asking moviegoers about their music preferences and posting their responses up on the cinema screen as part of a new pre-movie advertisement.
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Peter Gabriel cranks his fck machine - June 4, 2008

Meet the website promising to defy the tyranny of choice Updated The Filter wants to be your internet friend. And unlike Facebook, it wants to help you ignore all the morons, self-broadcasters and general noisy bombardment that characterises the modern web experience.
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UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders - June 2, 2008

Surprise new arrests in OiNK investigation Updated Cleveland police have today confirmed that six people have been arrested for allegedly sharing music files via the defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd.
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