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| UPDATED: 2008-02-20 |
 Wednesday's Music 2.0 Briefing: Yahoo Filtering?... 
By: Bruce Houghton 2008-02-20 ...Vivendi's Direct Distro, MySpace Music & Much More. Has filtering begun at Yahoo? Strangely a Yahoo search for Pirate Bay yields articles... ...about the torrent tracker but not a link to the tracker itself. Try it. Google blocks some searches for direct links to mp3 downloads. > Vivendi says that its EU based internet music, ringtone and video games provider Zaoza which launches today will attract 500,000 subscribers by the end of the year. (Reuters) > Details of the new MySpace music service are surfacing. (cNet) > Digital sales are predicted to pass CD sales by 2012 according to a new Forrester study. (FMQB, Forester summary) I predict sooner...perhaps by 2010. > Apple has dropped the price of its its 1G iPod shuffle to $49 and is introducing a new 2GB model of the iPod shuffle for $69. The popular iPod shuffle is just half a cubic inch in volume, weighs only one half an ounce, features an aluminum design with a built-in clip and comes in five colors"silver, blue, green, purple and a new red special edition. (Apple) > UK's MAMA Group is banking on live gigs as the new hub of profits in the music industry. (Telegraph UK) > A Q&A with Eagle's manager Irving Azoff. (NY Post) Comments Tag: web music Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl About the Author: Bruce Houghton is a 25 year music industry veteran who owns booking agency Skyline Music and the tour marketing company Skyline Innovations. http://www.hypebot.com |
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