You (hopefully) have better things to do with your day than read the bold and edgy blogs the New Media folks at
New TimesVVM have slapped all over their newsweeklies' sites. Of course, when you're gathering material for your day at a music blog, you comb even the least likely corners of the Internet for content. Of course, any Internet that would allow someone like me to pontificate on the music world ten times in a day is inherently dubious, but we stumbled upon a blogger in the VVM chain who is managing to bring shame to the industry itself.
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Remember when it seemed like former Yahoo! Music customers were going to have to repurchase any music they purchased from the now-defunct company and wanted to transfer to another machine? The company intends to make things right, although in a manner yet to be determined. A Yahoo! Music spokesperson told InformationWeek that customers would be "compensated for whatever you paid for the music... We haven't said exactly what we will do, but we will take care of our customers." I suppose that's comforting in some sense, although that promise is so vague, it could mean that Yahoo! is readying a stockpile of warm milk and blankies. Later in that same article, InformationWeek, through no fault of their own, relayed this gem: "Yahoo's experience with shutting down its music store highlights the problem DRM technology can have on consumers." You don't say. [InformationWeek]
R. Kelly attorney Sam Adam Jr. has publicly apologized to Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana for dragging her name into the Gary Coleman and X-rated-snowman-filled closing arguments of his client's trial last week. "This wasn't a gardener or the man down the street or a janitor," Adam's argument went. "This was a 13-year-old girl having sex with a superstar, and she doesn't tell anyone? She doesn't let it slip to her best friend? Never? Not anyone? You can't keep a 13-year-old's mouth closed over Hannah Montana tickets, but this?" Classy! Adam has since taken to MTV to tell Miley/Hannah "sorry," saying that he didn't mean to drag her into the worst of both worlds and that he only brought her into his spiel because she's "the biggest thing out—no offense, Robert." (Yes, he really did append that apology. Talk about digging a hole!) [
