More Industry News: Pirate Bay Hacked, Guvera + The Orchard, INgrooves, EMI Publishing & More
The Pirate Bay Hacked, Users Exposed – A group of Argentinian hackers have managed to gain access to The Pirate Bay’s admin panel through a security breach. Via the backend of The Pirate Bay website they were able to delete torrents and expose users’ IP-addresses, emails and MD5-hashed passwords. The Pirate Bay is currently working on a fix while the site is offline. (TorrentFreak)
- Ad supported Guvera has signed a licensing deal with The Orchard. (press release)
- Isolation Network, the parent company of digital music distributor INgrooves has launched a new digital publishing division, INscribe Digital.
- Product Placement Grows in Music Videos (NY Times)
- Gaming the System: How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine. (Epicenter)
- Apple’s Best-Case Scenario: The iPad Is the New iPod (Media Memo)
- EMI Music Publishing Nashville has promoted three of its A&R team. – “Big” Tom Luteran moves from Senior Director to Vice President of A&R, marking the latest step up in his fifteen year career on Music Row. In a parallel move, Josh Van Valkenburg is promoted from Manager to Director of A&R. Hannah Williams has been promoted to the newly created position of Manager of Creative Resources.
- MTV Networks Buys Gaming Developer Social Express. (paidContent)
- Not Reading Ticketmaster's Terms Of Service Shouldn't Make You A Criminal. (Techdirt)
will i ever be able to get the version of ghost riders in the sky by v. monroe made in 1949 it used to be available on u-tube (the animated version) thanks bob