Digital Music Trends

This Week: two interviews, one with Dave Haynes on Musichackday Boston and one with Simon Adams from www.mymusicsuccess.com. In the news Lala is being aquired by Apple, Myspace Music launches in the UK, Google objects to part of the Digital Economy Bill and Spain plans to tackle piracy by targeting websites that offer copyrighted material illegaly.

Shownotes:

Dave Haynes interview - visit www.musichackday.org for more information on the event, previous hacks and forthcoming ones.

Simon Adams interview - visit www.mymusicsuccess.com to see how the site works.

News:

Lala being aquired by Apple? http://www.pcworld.com/article/183828/apple_acquires_lala_a_sour_note.html

Myspace Music launches in the UK http://www.nma.co.uk/news/cover-story-myspace-music-goes-live-with-fiat-as-launch-sponsor/3007468.article

Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Ebay not happy with article 17 of the UK digital economy bill. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7e8466c-df58-11de-98ca-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

The Spanish Government is contemplating anti-piracy measures tackling the websites the offer illegal content. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i4fc25709a21933b0756e9b29d3c03ec5

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