Best Buy Set To Debut Vinyl Record Section

Best Buy, the third-largest music seller behind Apple’s iTunes and Wal-Mart, is set to debut a vinyl only section in each of its 1000 stores after the industry announced that the OG format logged a 15% uptick in sales this past year. Don’t get too excited. Best Buy is only devoting a “whopping” eight square feet of merchandising space for its vinyl sales experiment, which will amount to something like 150...

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Pirate Bay Founders Guilty Of Copyright Infringement – Sentenced To Year In Jail

In a ruling that will be heard around the world, the Stockholm District Court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom, founders of The Pirate Bay, to one year each in prison, and to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) to several entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures. The founders were convicted Friday of violating...

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