Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday August 31th, 2006

"If someone wants to buy a million CDs from us and then give them away on a street corner, that’s fine with us as long as we get paid." – UMG new media head Larry Kenswil, commenting in the LA Times on the SpiralFrog deal

– The Financial Times looks at SpiralFrog from all angles including a columnist that says the music industry needs to try every angle it can (here) and another who believes SprialFrog is bad news for iTunes at a time when Apple is getting a lot of good news(here).

– American Idol proved that reality TV has a huge impact on sales. Now P. Diddy’s "Making The Band 3" on cable’s MTV helps Danity Kane beat OutKast and debut at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200. (Billboard)

– An updated scorecard keeping track of major RIAA lawsuits and actions (P2P Weblog)

– Microsoft acknowledges that a hack stripping it’s DRM of effectiveness exists and promises a patch pronto. (AFP)

– Garagespin interviews Louise Molloy-Harris, PR Manager at Quite Great Communications. (GarageSpin)