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CMU Podcast: Baboom, MegaUpload, SFX, The Voice
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 21 August 2015
CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including the long-awaited launch of Baboom, the longer awaited deletion of MegaUpload, the further protracted buy-back of SFX, and unexpected departure of Tom Jones from ‘The Voice’. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.
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Stories discussed this week
Baboom
• Baboom finally goes live, plays with the streaming music model
MegUpload
• Server firm seeks to finally delete the old MegaUpload files
• Kim Dotcom posts pre-MegaUpload shutdown chat with Universal where collaboration is on the agenda
• Hosting company wants to wipe 1103 MegaUpload servers (TorrentFreak)
• Universal Music Group and Kim Dotcom (SoundCloud)
SFX
• Sillerman fails to finance SFX buy-back bid, opening a new seven week window for alternative proposals
• Sillerman confirms he is working on SFX buy-back Plan B
The Voice
• New coaches for The Voice
• Boy George comments on him thieving Tom Jones’ Voice seat (sort of)
• Tom Jones statement (Facebook)
What we didn’t have time to talk about
• Movie industry drops web-block injunction request from MovieTube case
• SoundCloud no longer providing data to Next Big Sound
• Apple Music disputes ‘half of users no longer streaming’ stat
• Apple announces all new look Roundhouse season
• Deezer seeking new finance, IPO not ruled out
• BBFC to pilot voluntary ratings for online music videos, as exemption threshold for music DVDs narrowed
• Extra security needed next to provocative Nicki Minaj waxwork after saucy photos go viral
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