Round Up: Warp Webshop Closes, Warner Music’s YouTube Demands, New FCC Chairman

The Warp Records online store has closed, Warner Music forces its own artist’s videos offline and Obama is ready to nominate a new FCC Chairman, all in today’s round up!

• WarpMart, the Warp Records webshop, is finished. Users have been notified that all purchases, digital and physical, will now be made through a new version of the Bleep.com website. The site is still in its beta version, however, the change is helpful, as there will now be a single source for the music of Warp Records and related labels. [Electronic Music World]
• Death Cab For Cutie’s official hompage videos, embedded from Youtube, have been taken offline with the message “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG”. The incredible thing is that Warner Music is the band’s own label. This ironic turn symbolizes perfectly the conflict between the major labels’ protectionism and the free-sharing culture. [Mashable]

• The name Julius Genachowski is going to come up every time there is a media merger, censorship dispute or media scandal. Set to be nominated as Barack Obama’s new chairman of the FCC, Genachowski helped the president make use of the Internet while campaigning last year. The Federal Communications Commission is charged with regulating communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. Net neutrality is a big issue for the FCC, so let’s hope for some big changes! [Rolling Stone]

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