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What is it with recording industry folks getting charged with actual theft these days? First we had folks from the Spanish music collection society SGAE charged with a complicated scheme to divert money from artists to themselves.

Let's get right to it. I have to admit, this is kind of funny. The comment voted most insightful is by Hephaestus and involves a suggestion that a bunch of tech companies team up and buy the record labels.

YouTube unceremoniously removed the video in question, saying it was subject to a copyright challenge by WMG (apparently, the Warner Music Group).

See this link for the brief message from YouTube. The group of activists who assembled the Brentwood flash mobs, the St.

Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee, is now questioning the video's removal. As organizer Colleen Kelly points out, there are close to 1,000 YouTube videos showing flash mob-type performances or other recreations of Lady Gaga songs.

Those haven't been taken down...

Yesterday I attended the always worthwhile SF Music Tech Summit.

This has to be the fourth or fifth time I've gone, and I always find that after it's all over and I've had some time to think about it, I recognize one key theme that kept hitting me over and over again throughout the event.

This time it was the increasing irrelevance of the major record labels.

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