More Music Industry News: BMG Buys Stage Three, Facebook Hits 500M, Pitchfork & More
BMG acquires Stage Three Publishing including right to Aerosmith, ZZ Top, David Essex songs. (Washington Post)- Facebook is about to announce 500 million users. (TechCrunch)
- Pitchfork: Upstart Music Site Becomes The Establishment. (NY Times)
- UK Royalty Society Suggests ISPs Should Pay for Pirated Music. (PC World)
- Non-profit CashMusic.org previews a new free streaming and download application by giving away a new Calexico live album. (CashMusic)
- Copyright Serves Middlemen, Not Content Creators. (Techdirt)
- D.C. Interns Wanted – Future of Music Coalition has opened the application process for interns (more)
- Microsoft is putting all of the pieces of what could be the ultimate mobile music service. (CNet)
- I Want My Music Videos!: The music industry had given up on
videos. Then Lady Gaga came calling. (Newsweek) - Double whammy: music tax based on deep packet inspection.(Register).
- Spotify 'growing healthily and on track for US launch.' (Telegraph)
- Upstart Music Site Becomes Establishment: Early each weekday
morning, the indie music Web site Pitchfork posts five new album
reviews. (NYT) - 10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter. (Mashable)
- U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host Blogetery.com With 73,000 Blogs – It appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result. (TorrentFreak)
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I never heard of blogetery.com before. I did a google search on that domain name and found a bunch of plinky little blogs which seemed to have nothing to do with file sharing — “Diet Fan Girl,” something about etymology, something about new tech gadgets. A few of their blogs were obvious link-swappers. Google Cache still has the pre-seizure contents, if you want to look for yourself.
Obviously law enforcement isn’t talking; the blogetery.com owner is screaming on a forum that he hasn’t done anything wrong, he complies with all DMCA notices, and he wants his business back. At first glance it appears there could be some substantial free press/prior restraint issues here. Just to pick one parallel: a lot of link swapping happens on Google’s blogspot.com, but blogspot is also the political nervous system of the country, hosting a huge amount of the partisan political discussion.