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Imagine one of the biggest hip-hop outings in history taking shape this summer. It would be dubbed the Triple Threat Tour and feature multiplatinum acts Ja Rule, Jay-Z and P. Diddy. To top it off, each would bring with him his musical family. Representing with Ja Rule would be Ashanti and the rest of Murder Inc. Jay would “Roc the Mic” with his boys Beanie Sigel, Cam’ron and Memphis Bleek. And Diddy and his Bad Boy crew would do their thing. Keep imagining; although it was almost a reality, the tour has been called off. Last week, while promoting her… Read more »

A new lawsuit filed against MP3.com seeks to hold the San Diego music-locker service liable not only for songs it improperly copied and distributed, but also for every bootleg track exchanged through Napster and other underground file-swapping services. The suit, filed on behalf of 52 independent songwriters and music publishers, accuses MP3.com of “viral” infringement. It contends that MP3.com’s technology set the stage for widespread music piracy, enabling bootlegged songs to pass from computer to computer faster than you can say “Oops, I Did It Again.” The argument goes like this: MP3.com made compressed copies of about 900,000 songs, which… Read more »

Bertelsmann AG Chief Executive Thomas Middelhoff said in an interview published on Saturday that the company’s music division Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) would not be put up for sale. “There will be no sale of BMG,” Middelhoff said in an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The comments come after the collapse of a planned merger of BMG and Britain’s EMI Group earlier this week as the two groups failed to crack regulatory concerns. Last July, Middelhoff said the sale of BMG could be possible under certain conditions but told Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the situation had changed after his company’s… Read more »