Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Daily News: Tuesday
- Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue has denied that the band is planning to sign a deal with Live Nation.
- Illegal downloaders could be banned from the Internet in the UK.
- A recent report indicates that file-sharing takes up 95% of web traffic (at night).
- Rapper Bubba Sparxxx has signed to Koch Records.
- AOL was the most-visited music site in January. (via Billboard.biz)
- Omnifone is expected to launch a mobile phone that includes unlimited music downloads.
- Yoko Ono has filed a lawsuit against Lennon Murphy.
- According to researchers at NYU, the volume of blogging surrounding a release “significantly affects future album sales.”
- The battles between the record industry and ISPs continues.
- Yahoo has confirmed its acquisition of online video platform Maven Networks.
- The Pirate Bay’s co-founders, Gottfrid Svartholm, speaks out on TV for the first time.
