RIAA, newspapers ask Trump to limit fair use, toughen copyright | Ars Technica: "President-elect Donald Trump is meeting today with some of Silicon Valley's top business leaders. Ahead of that meeting, content companies sent letters letting Trump know that they're hoping to see some changes to copyright laws in the near future—changes that technology companies, large and small, are likely to object to."

It's appalling how much copyrighted music is on YouTube gathering ad revenue for random uploaders. Especially when the audio fingerprinting tech is available to prevent it.

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Spotify drops efforts to buy SoundCloud in prep for IPO plans - report: "Although the two companies were in negotiations for months, any chance of a deal is said to have died in the past week, a source told TechCrunch on Thursday. Spotify was allegedly worried that buying SoundCloud would hurt its preparations for a stock IPO, which has been rumored for 2017."

IPO now, buy later?

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