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Friday, 30 May 2008

Nme - Ting Tings Criticise Friend For Selling Rare Copies Of Their Single

THE TING TINGS have criticised one of their former friends who has been selling rare copies of their single THAT'S NOT MY NAME online.

According to NME magazine, the ex-pal has been selling CDs of the song, which is currently number one in the UK charts, for up to £60 each.

Writing on their website, THE TING TINGS said: "Unfortunately, when we put out our first vinyl copies of 'That's Not My Name' with a friend last year for kicks, she kept some back and is now trying to sell them to you guys for £60 apiece.

They added that they have nothing to do with the sales, stating "we would never charge that money for our singles".

THAT'S NOT MY NAME reached number one in the charts on Sunday, beating queen of pop MADONNA and songstress RIHANNA to the top spot.

KATIE WHITE and JULES DE MARTINO, who make up the group, celebrated the achievement with an all-night party.

WE START NOTHING, the band's debut album is released today.

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Downloading case in the High Court

Four-spot criminal record companies have brought a Heights Court natural action to compel Eircom - the State's largest broadband service supplier - to prevent its networks existence used for the illegal downloading of music.
It's the first caseful to be aimed at the service provider quite than at mortal illegal downloaders.
The four record companies taking the action at law ar EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music.
Willie Kavanagh, Managing Music director of EMI Hibernia and President of the Irish Gaelic Recorded Music Association, said because of illegal downloading and other factors, the Irish music industry was experiencing a "dramatic and accelerating decline" in income.
He said sales in the Irish people market dropped 30% in the six days up to 2007.
EMI and the other companies are challenging Eircom's refusal to use filtering applied science or other measures to voluntarily block or sink in lawlessly downloaded material.
End October Eircom told the companies it was non in a stance to consumption the filtering software program.
Eircom as well told the companies that it was not on notice of specific illegal natural action which infringed the companies' rights and it had no legal obligation to reminder traffic on its network.

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Winehouse helps Ronson through break-up

Isaac Merrit Singer Amy Winehouse is portion DJ and instrumentalist Stigma Ronson to get through the holocene epoch take apart of a long-term relationship.
According to The Mirror, Ronson said that his friend has been real supportive towards him in recent weeks.
The 32-year-old DJ said: "It's sad times for me at the moment. I was dating my girlfriend for iII years simply we split up."
"I'm lucky I have trade good friends. Amy has been brilliant and is always at that place for me - and I'm in that respect for her excessively."
However, Ronson was quick to deny rumours of romance between the geminate, expression: "no possibility".
He added: "I am sick of talk about it. Amy is a supporter."