Music Industry Targets Workplace Downloaders
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By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent

LONDON (Reuters) - The recording industry directed its anti-piracy campaign at large companies in the United States, Europe and Asia on Thursday, warning them that employees are illegally downloading music on company time.



The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a global trade group representing the major music labels, said it had begun issuing brochures to thousands of companies spelling out the legal and technological dangers of giving employees access to online file-sharing networks.

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Green Day's Billie Joe Set For February 19 DUI Hearing
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Green Day vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong is set for a pre-trial hearing February 19 in Alameda County Superior Court for two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol. Armstrong will not be there as his legal counsel, Laurel L. Headley, is on the case. Armstrong did not attend his arraignment on February 4, but was represented by his counsel. He pled not guilty to both counts.

Armstrong was arrested January 5, 2003 near his home in Berkeley, California, for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. Armstrong was stopped near Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley speeding in his black BMW convertible. He failed a sobriety test at the scene, and was then taken into police custody. He was released on $1,200 bail.

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Lollapalooza music festival revived after 6 years

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six years after the Lollapalooza traveling music festival played its last note, some of the top names in rock will hit the road for a new version this summer, organizers said Monday.

Lollapalooza will be headlined by Jane's Addiction -- the alternative rock quartet who conceived the event in 1991 as a way to mark its brief swan song -- and emerging acts Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age and Jurassic 5.

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Queens of the Stone Age :

If Sumit thinks, QOTSA aren't big enough, check this out!

QOTSA hooked up with Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl (who drummed on all but one track), former Screaming Tree Mark Lanegan and Dean Ween (Ween) for 2002’s Songs for the Deaf. The record, with its breakout single, “No One Knows,” landed on many year-end critic’s top-ten lists and brought the band more commercial success than ever before. Grohl soon exited to rejoin the Foo Fighters, thereby continuing QOTSA’s long-standing revolving-door tradition.

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Audioslave's home page

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Grammy's are on the 23rd of February this year! Check out some interesting predictions.

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John Mayer's New Album is to be released soon. I don't know why I should care about a Rock/Pop songwriter who writes corny love songs. But he's still cool!

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