Tuesday’s Music Brief: Pirate Bay Sold, Pandora Problems, Spotify’s Future, Limewire Exec & More

Lot's of great stuff today and a few things already on deck for tomorrow.  So much for a holiday/summer slowdown.  And be sure to vote in the Pandora indie poll.

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Pirate Bay Sold To Global Gaming Factory
• Pandora Forces $29.95 Payments From Indie Bands
• VOTE: What Do You Think Of The New Pandora Requirements?
• ReverbNation Survey: How is the Economic Downturn Affecting Artists?
• Band Shoots Free Video With Surveillance Cameras
• The Music Industry, Michael Jackson & The Zombieconomy
• Pirate Bay Readies Launch Of The Video Bay

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Spotify founder hints at video, P2P sharing, world domination. (Register)
• Big music label foe LimeWire’s newest executive is Jason Hersowitz, a big label veteran. (MediaMemo)
• Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US. (Slashdot)
• The Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference 2009 to be held August 27-28 in San Francisco has added Cory Ondrejka, EVP of Digital Marketing at EMI Music for a keynote conversation. (press release)
• See how the Michael Jackson phenomena continues to dominate the sales charts with this up to these up to the minute iTunes single and album charts.
• Study: Radio Is Still Top Teen Source For Music (FMQB)
• imeem and eMusic: If You're Taking Away Features From Users, Don't Tell Them It's For Their Own Benefit (Techdirt)
• ubroadcast Details Cooperation Agreement With PurePlayMusic.com(press release)