Finalement, Spotify a eu bien raison de donner la priorité à l’innovation logicielle avant de lancer son service, quand d’autres s’évertuaient à mettre la charrue avant les bœufs. Le buzz marketing qui en a découlé l’illustre à merveille. La langue pendue des américains qui n’en peuvent plus d’attendre son arrivée sur leur territoire aussi. « Nous sommes encore parmi les pays les plus pauvres », s’en est ému Ted Cohen hier matin dans son keynote d’ouverture du Midemnet.

Update 2 (6.15pm BST): Apple’s Cupertino spokesperson tells us it has approved the iPhone app from Spotify, the music service that many people believe represents a threat to iTunes: "The current status as of right now is it’s been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon. We’ve been in constant communication working with the developer and have already notified Spotify that the app will be in the app store very soon."

Next week we are going to be making some changes to our music catalogue that we feel are important to communicate clearly. Unfortunately we are going to be removing a number of songs from our catalogue and adding country restrictions to some tracks, which may make them unplayable for you.

Independent to the core, Ian McKaye and Fugazi gave the middle finger to capitalism and the almighty dollar through its post-hardcore sloganeering