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		<title>The Truth About Megaupload &amp; The Record Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Rosso</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kim Dotcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megabox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megaupload]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No conspiracy between the US and Record Labels]]></description>
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		<title>Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails</title>
		<link>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/rhapsody-goes-to-europe-as-new-music-services-compete-news-corp%e2%80%99s-fails/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rhapsody-goes-to-europe-as-new-music-services-compete-news-corp%25e2%2580%2599s-fails</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best Buy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midem Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RealNetworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhapsody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spotify]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viacom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success. The Incumbent On the eve of the big Midem music conference in Cannes, Rhapsody today says it is moving in to Europe by acquiring Napster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Rick?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Rosso</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucian Grainge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyor Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Rubin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Stringer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Cowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Barnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warner Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xfactor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is Rick Rubin heading to Universal Music?]]></description>
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		<title>Piracy Involves Hypocrisy From Both Sides: Where Are The Solutions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakomi Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anti-SOPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BitTorrent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=13610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst TMV wrote about the SOPA legislation last week we were barraged with comments from the Anti-SOPA camp – many of them rather anti-free speech if you consider the personal attacks and the rage associated with me presenting my opinion on the issue. Folks regardless of opinions from either side, free speech is a universal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Music Growth Re-Accelerated In 2011 Thanks To New Services</title>
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		<comments>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/digital-music-growth-re-accelerated-in-2011-thanks-to-new-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital music services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFPI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Piracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six-year slowdown in digital music’s commercial growth rate ended in 2011, when digital trade revenue grew eight percent to $5.2 billion, according to the IFPI industry umbrella group’s annual Digital Music Report. That was the first year the growth rate increased since IFPI records began in 2004. Previously, growth rate of 10 percent in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music And Movie Studios Take A Slice Of HMV To Save Disc Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/music-and-movie-studios-take-a-slice-of-hmv-to-save-disc-sales/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=music-and-movie-studios-take-a-slice-of-hmv-to-save-disc-sales</link>
		<comments>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/music-and-movie-studios-take-a-slice-of-hmv-to-save-disc-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HMV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Studios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Music Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal Music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=13595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Struggling UK entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is giving equity worth 2.5 percent to its key suppliers &#8211; music and movie studios &#8211; to avoid breaching its banking covenants. The move means music and movie companies have likely written off money owed for supply are now literally invested in saving one of their main sellers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VP, Music Publishing Controller, Warner Music Group NY</title>
		<link>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/vp-music-publishing-controller-warner-music-group-ny/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=vp-music-publishing-controller-warner-music-group-ny</link>
		<comments>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/vp-music-publishing-controller-warner-music-group-ny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakomi Mathews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recorded music business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warner Chappell Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warner Music Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WMG]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=13589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Job Description About Warner Music Group: With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Cordless, East West, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word, as well as Warner/Chappell Music, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Companies Opposed To SOPA Are Acting Like Spoilt Children</title>
		<link>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/companies-opposed-to-sopa-are-acting-like-spoilt-children/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=companies-opposed-to-sopa-are-acting-like-spoilt-children</link>
		<comments>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/companies-opposed-to-sopa-are-acting-like-spoilt-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakomi Mathews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[negotiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=13574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TMV are utterly disgusted with the antics of the anti SOPA camp. What is so wrong with legislation that’s core aim is to eradicate piracy and in effect protect producers of art and culture? Businesses such as Wikipedia and Google have been acting like a bunch of spoilt children throwing a tantrum and chucking the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Google vs. Content &#8211; Why Rupert Is Right!</title>
		<link>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/google-vs-content-why-rupert-is-right/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=google-vs-content-why-rupert-is-right</link>
		<comments>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/google-vs-content-why-rupert-is-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakomi Mathews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content creators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copyright Infringement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P2P]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Torrent Sites]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=13558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never ever dreamed I would see myself agreeing with the right-wing press baron Rupert Murdoch. However his recent tweet that Google is a “piracy leader” hits the nail on the head. As previously reported in TMV, Google continues to make money from linking to illegal torrent sites and then allowing advertisers using both text [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Motorola Wins A Round In Mobile Patent War Against Apple</title>
		<link>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/motorola-wins-a-round-in-mobile-patent-war-against-apple/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=motorola-wins-a-round-in-mobile-patent-war-against-apple</link>
		<comments>http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/01/motorola-wins-a-round-in-mobile-patent-war-against-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Krazit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motorola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent lawsuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Cook]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=13551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chalk one up for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and Android: the International Trade Commission has determined that it doesn’t violate any of the patents asserted by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in its case against the company Google (NSDQ: GOOG) hopes to buy for patent protection. It’s just a preliminary decision that can be overturned by an appeals [...]]]></description>
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