More Music News: Dynamic Ticket Pricing, UK Crackdown Debate, Kayne Explodes, Label Exec Arrested & More

• Ticketmaster plans to unveil dynamic pricing on some events and one analyst says it could give the ticketing giant a boost even without a Live Nation merger. (TicketNews)
• TWO UK VIEWS: 1) Filesharing crackdown divides UK music industry.  A coalition of artists says moves to suspend offenders' broadband connections are like 'cracking a nut with a sledgehammer'. (Guardian) 2) Filesharing is defended by gigging performers, but who pays the songwriter?
  Artists can sing for their supper. Composers can’t. (Times UK)
• Beyonce does damage control after Kanye West’s VMA outburst. (Boston Herald, includes video of the outburst.)
• iPods Still Reign Supreme, but Competition Closes In (PC World)
  
• 'Label Executive’ Arrested in DV8 Music Piracy Investigation - 
  The major online music release group DV8 had been severely disrupted in
  June after a police and music industry investigation led to arrests.
  Now there have been further arrests. (TorrentFreak)
• Mike Masnick's Techdirt follows the example of the musicians he often writes about experimenting with the freemium model. (CNet)
• All Four Major Labels Sue Ellen DeGeneres Show. (FMQB)
  
• Bandcamp drops 128K downloads in favor of 320K.
• Spotify is back to invite only in the UK due to "huge demand" for its mobile service. (Billboard)
• Make sure you didn't miss anything important last week with Hypebot's Music Industry Week In Review.
• R.I.P. Punk rocker and poet Jim Carroll.