Today’s headlines, October 20

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and it is H-O-T. 20 hrs ago
Wintersleep's Paul Murphy is busy with bro Michael working the Postdata project. Meantime, EMI slips 'Sleep's new single, Black Camera out. 20 hrs ago
Sweet scent of $ucce$$: Beyonce's perfume, Heat, is her latest hit, with $3 million in sales during first month http://su.pr/1nzcHX 21 hrs ago
Get free shipping when you order 5 or more discs with CD Baby duplication. Use code: FREEGROUND when you check out at http://ow.ly/1ouEF 21 hrs ago
Critique of the ICC’s report on the digital economy in Europe with link to full report http://bit.ly/amqEJ 21 hrs ago
"Piracy" sounds too sexy, just label them common thieves: http://bit.ly/deX828 21 hrs ago
FACTOR winners: Metric, Arkells, Nickelback, Carly Rae Jepson & One More Girl 23 hrs ago
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By choosing to take on the PRS, a society that collects royalties for artists rather than record companies, Google is hoping to bring to heel the last remaining outpost of resistance to the idea that music on the internet should be free – the creators of that music, the artists themselves. … Google’s dispute with the PRS makes this debate even more urgent. Their menacing attitude towards paying UK artists for content is a test case that will have ramifications around the world. — Billy Bragg, PaidContent.UK

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