The Daily Loper – December 21, 2006

Posted by Lopy in The Daily Loper on Dec 21, 2006

Slowing It Down For The Holidays Edition

Todays links of interest:

Sony BMG to pay $4.25 million in settlement with 39 states
We hope that is is far far more than the sales that they would have lost from unfettered copies of the rootkitted CDs being shared.
Analyst Still Sees Rough Times For Yahoo!
Alternate headline: Due To Web 2 Snafu Boohoo for Yahoo!
Record labels sue operator of Russian music Web site AllofMP3.com
The heads of the labels had just better hope the Putin isn’t involved in any way with Mediaservices . . .

Orchestra hopes to grow online sales
Traditional entertainment looks to creative ways to grow audience and revenue.
Too Zune for Hype
Say what? The Zune maybe won’t be in iPod killer? Really?
Vintage vids rock the web
Turns out that people of a "certain" age are rediscovering their love for MTV…thanks to YouTube.
The YouTube world opens an untamed frontier for copyright law
Hmm, where have we heard this one before?

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