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			<title>Sweden Sees Legal Music Sales Boost Following Pirate Bay Case</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Legal music sales in Sweden have increased since four men involved with The Pirate Bay torrent sharing website were convicted of copyright infringement.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:57 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Universal Teams With TuneCore To Discover New Artists</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Three of Universal Music Group's divisions have joined forces with digital distributor TuneCore to help the labels discover new talent.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:50:42 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Google OneBox To Offer Free Songs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last week Google announced the launch of a new search feature, called Music Onebox, which allows you to stream songs for free.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:40:59 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Judge: Cellphone Ringtones Are Not Concerts</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has dismissed the music industry contention that when a cellphone’s ringtone begins playing, copyright infringement starts happening.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:01:14 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Album Sales Take A Major Toll In 2009</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's no secret everyone seems to be downloading music for free instead of making purchases at the local record store, but how bad has the decline been?]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:11:29 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>iPods And MP3 Players To Be Made Quieter?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The European Commission in Brussels has proposed new rules on volumes for MP3 players in a bid to prevent users suffering from hearing problems.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:19:53 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>YouTube And PRS Resolve 'Complex' Dispute Over Royalties</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thousands of official music videos are to return to YouTube after the video-sharing website resolved a dispute with the songwriters' association, PRS for Music.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:00:10 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>UK Government To 'Cut Off' File-Sharers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The UK government has announced that people who continually download music and films could face being banned from the internet.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:15:40 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>New Digital Album Formats On The Way</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The "big four" major record companies have joined forces to launch a new digital album format that they hope will take on Apple.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:59:15 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pirate Bay Takeover 'To Take Place This Month'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The founder of Swedish company Global Gaming Factory has claimed that his proposed takeover of torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay will occur on August 27.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:24:46 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>The Pirate Bay Ordered To Shut Down In Netherlands</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been ordered to shut down in The Netherlands by a judge in Amsterdam.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:24:54 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pirate Bay 'Adviser' Has 'Very Strong Doubts' Acquisition Will Go Ahead</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An adviser to the Swedish company hoping to acquire file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has pulled out of his role.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:16:04 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pirate Bay Unfazed By New Threats</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Peter Sunde, a co-founder of high-profile file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, says new legal action against the site is nothing more than "harassment".]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:41:48 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Apple, Labels Work On Plan To Boost Album Sales</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc and four record labels are working on a plan to increase digital sales of albums.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:12:47 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>New Pirate Bay Boss Spells Out Legitimate Future</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The potential new boss of torrent website The Pirate Bay has outlined his future plans for the site.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:44:25 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>EMI Abandons Independent Music Stores</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EMI Group has been contacting small accounts, mostly independent "mom &amp; pop" record stores, to tell them that they would no longer sell them product.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:55:58 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pirate Bay's New Owners Reveal Novel Business Plan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The new owners of Pirate Bay have revealed an ambitious plan to run the torrent site legitimately.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:33 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pirate Bay To Become Legitimate Downloading Site</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Music file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been sold.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:27 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Daisy Rock Guitars Now Shipping Highly-Anticipated New Models</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/daisy_rock_guitars_now_shipping_highly-anticipated_new_models.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Daisy Rock Guitars proudly announces that new 2009 Daisy Rock Rock Candy Classic, Rock Candy Special, and Siren electric guitar models are now available and shipping.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:16:57 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Guitar Hero To Become A TV Show?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There’s some rumblings going on that Activision Blizzard is considering turning Guitar Hero into a TV show.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:47:41 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pirate Bay Founder Demands Retrial</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/pirate_bay_founder_demands_retrial.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Lawyer claims the case judge has links to copyright protection organisations.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:57:58 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>New Series Orange Bass Speaker Cabinets Punch Above Their Weight</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/new_series_orange_bass_speaker_cabinets_punch_above_their_weight.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Following the launch of the groundbreaking Terror Bass at NAMM 09, Orange amplification are launching a series of state-of-art bass speaker cabinets.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:36:03 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>AmpliTube Fender Now Shipping</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/amplitube_fender_now_shipping.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[IK Multimedia and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation are proud to announce that AmpliTube Fender® is now shipping.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:06:11 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Washburn Guitars Releases Five New Acoustic Guitar Models</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/washburn_guitars_releases_five_new_acoustic_guitar_models.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For 2008 Washburn Guitars will be adding five new models to its extensive line of finely crafted acoustic guitars.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:21:37 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Improve Your Guitar With Simple Performance Upgrades</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/improve_your_guitar_with_simple_performance_upgrades.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ResoMax Bridge is made from a high strength, light weight alloy designed to maximize harmonic content.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:44:45 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Music Industry Claim 95 Per Cent Of All Downloads Are Illegal</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/music_industry_claim_95_per_cent_of_all_downloads_are_illegal.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A three-year investigation into online music piracy has concluded that 95 percent of music downloads are illegal.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:10:07 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>iTunes To Drop DRM, Change Pricing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[iTunes will offer all DRM-free music, as well as change the pricing, from 69 cents to $1.29 a song.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:45:09 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Concert Industry Posts Record Year Despite Economy</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/concert_industry_posts_record_year_despite_economy.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The stock market is in the tank, the plant is closing and the neighbor is losing his home ... the perfect time to go to a concert, by one measure.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:38:11 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Music Industry To Abandon Mass Suits</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/music_industry_to_abandon_mass_suits.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:21:18 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>'iTax' To Hit iPod Users</title>
			<link>http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/itax_to_hit_ipod_users.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Anyone who downloads music to their iPods in New York is set to be hit with an 'iTax' on every song they buy.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:40:42 -0500</pubDate>
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