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uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. just announced that the BitTorrent Mainline client and uTorrent have hit the milestone of 150 million monthly users.

Together both clients increased their user base by more than 50 percent compared to last year, and the end of this surge is not yet in sight.

The only major RIAA-member label with an official Grooveshark licensing deal is suing the music streaming service.

EMI filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday against Grooveshark parent company Escape Media.

Here's a silly one to get you smiling on a Saturday. YouTube and parent company Google has been toughening up their copyright laws lately, and if you violate them, you'll now be required to attend

ZDNet: "Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, has spoken with the developers of Banshee, which is to be the default music player in next version of Ubuntu Linux, and announced a “compromise” on how to handle Banshee's revenue from its built-in Amazon Store connection.

Banshee's programmers are not happy."

ZDNet: "But, then Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company decided that they wanted 75% of any revenue from Banshee's built-in connection to the Amazon music store-revenue that Banshee was already donating all of to the GNOME Foundation."

uTorrent's parent company BitTorrent Inc. recently signed up with a new toolbar partner. Last week millions of users got the offer to install this new addon with the upgrade to uTorrent 2.2, but it appears that it wasn't that optional for everyone.

Several disappointed users report that the Conduit toolbar was installed without notice, or even when they explicitly opted out.

Cyber Cynic: "Well, in either case, you're going to want to check out Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, latest desktop support offerings: Starter, Advanced and Professional."