Friday’s Music Brief: Pirates, iTunes Dips, Taxes, Meters, S. Korea, Net Payola & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• The Pirate Bay Four Found Gulity, Will Appeal
• Higher iTunes Prices Meant Lower Sales Last Week
• New Chart Scans Web For Top Talk On Tracks
• Edison Infinite Dial Study Shows Growth And Potential Of Online Media
• Macrovision Buys Muze, Seeks Metadata Dominance
• Court Rejects Harvard Plea For RIAA Webcast
• Kill The Record Labels Documentary Trailer

MORE INDUSTRY NEWS:

• As states struggle to cover revenue shortfalls, taxes on digital downloads are back on the table. (cNet)
• Complaints from customers have led Time Warner to end experimentation of metered billing for internet usage. (ars)
• Radio trade site FMQB is getting a makeover which is scheduled to go live at 3PM ET on Friday.
• Rondor Music Publishing has promoted Kevin Hall to Senior Vice President, Urban Music. (press release)
• Korea adopts the three strikes policy. (Korea Times)
• Payola: Once a dirty word, now the basis of internet radio.
  
  Why
  have internet radio stations started charging bands to appear on their
  playlists – and do their pay-to-play schemes even work? (Guardian UK)
• Somewhat like the just launched We Are Hunted, The Wiki Chart  tracks data from a bunch of different sources of music (blogs, Billboard, YouTube, iTunes, radio, imeem, last fm lots more) and come up with a weekly top 40 of the most buzzed about tracks.