2014-08-29



At Digital Music News, we often receive detailed suggestions on where to stuff things.  Perhaps we should apologize to a few people and organizations we may have accidentally offended over the years.

AdRev

Anonymous

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)

The Association of American Music (AIM)

Amanda Palmer

Amazon

American Music Awards (AMAs)

Amie Street

Anything Streaming-Related

Apple

Apple Corps

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Current Apple CEO Tim Cook

Woman-assaulting Apple executive Dr. Dre
Rapper Alex Trabek

Ariel Hyatt

ASCAP

Audiam

Audiogalaxy

Austin, TX

Irving Azoff

BPI

BREIN

BandPage

The Beatles

Beats by Dr. Dre

Beats Music

Beatport

Berklee College of Music

Best Buy

Beyoncé

Beyond Oblivion

Justin Bieber

Big Machine Records

BigChampagne

Billboard

Former Billboard editor Bill Werde

Blackberry

BMI

Bon Iver

Boxee

Garth Brooks

Bruno Mars

BurnLounge

Canada

Capitol Records

Cary Sherman

Cassette Tapes

CD Baby

Chris Anderson

Chris Brown

Christian Bands

Citigroup

Clear Channel Communications

CMJ

Cricket Wireless

Coachella

Coca-Cola

Copyright Law

Dancing With the Stars

David Lowery

Def Jam

Disney

The DMCA

Donda, the ‘uber-startup’ conceptualized by Kanye West.

Doug Morris

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

eDonkey

Electric Daisy Carnival

EMI Music

eMusic

Entourage music supervisor Scott Vener

Escape Media

Facebook

Fans First Coalition

FBI

Flattr

Arthur Fogel

Fox News

Foxconn

Future of Music Coalition

GEMA

Gene Simmons

George Michael

Gibson Guitar

The Global Repertoire Database

Goldman Sachs

Google

Google Play Music All Access

The Grammys

Grooveshark

Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino

Grooveshark lawyer John Rosenberg

Grooveshark lawyer Ed McPherson

Grooveshark law firm Rosenberg & Giger

Grooveshark law firm McPherson Rane

Grooveshark Vice President Benjamin Westermann-Clark

Grooveshark Senior Vice President Paul Geller

Grooveshark Vice President John Ashenden

Grooveshark Software Engineer Chanel Munezero

Grooveshark Quality Assurance Specialist Nikola Arabadjiev

Grooveshark cofounder and CTO Josh Greenberg

(More information on how we may have offended Grooveshark and their lawyers here.)

The Los Angeles Superior Court

HADOPI

The Harry Fox Agency

Helio

Guy Hands

Don Henley

Hilary Rosen

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hip Digital

HMV

The Hollywood Bowl

Hypebot

Ian Rogers

India.Arie

The iTunes Store

IFPI

Imeem

iMesh

INgrooves

INgrooves Fontana

INgrooves CEO Robb McDaniels

Interscope

IODA

James ‘Jimmy Henchman’ Rosemond

Jay-Z+Kanye West

Jeff Price

Joe Jonas

KaZaA

Kenny Rogers

Kim Dotcom

Lady Gaga

Last.fm

Lazy Artists

Len Blavatnik

Liquid Audio

LittleBits

Live Nation

Live Nation Labs

Los Angeles Times

Lucian Grainge

Lyor Cohen

Ted Cohen

LAPD

LAPD Deputy Andrew Francis Wood

Lyricfind

Macklemore

Madonna

Madonna’s brother, Anthony Ciccone (he lives under a bridge)

Lauren Mayberry

McDonald’s

MediaNet

MegaUpload

Mel Gibson

Mercedes-Benz

Merlin

Merlin CEO Charles Caldas

Metallica

Michael Jackson

Michael Robertson

MIDEM

Milk, Samsung’s new streaming service

Mitch Bainwol

Music Managers

Morrissey

Harvest/Capitol Records

MOG

mp3.com

Music Ally

Musicmetric

Muve Music

MySpace

Napster I

Napster II

NARM

Netflix

New Music Seminar

The New York Post

The New York Times

New Zealand

Next Big Sound

Nickelback

The NFL

Nuclear Blast

OK Go

OneSheet

The Orchard

Overpeer

Pandora

Pandora founder Tim Westergren

Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews

Pandora Head of Product Tom Conrad

Pandora CMO Simon Fleming-Wood

Pandora CFO Mike Herring

Sean Parker

The Pirate Bay

Paul McCartney

Placido Domingo

PlaysforSure

PONO

Pressplay

Prince

Qtrax

Tim Quirk

R. Kelly

Rap Genius

RapidShare

Michael Rapino

Rdio

Record Store Day

The Recording Academy

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

ReDigi

ReverbNation

Rhapsody

RIAA

Roadrunner Records

Robin Thicke

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Rolling Stone

Rolling.fm

RootMusic

Ruckus

Rumblefish

SanFran MusicTech Summit

SDMI

SDMI II

SeaWorld

Seeqpod

Selena Gomez

SESAC

SFX Entertainment

Siri

Sirius XM Radio

SMH Records

Snocap

Soundcloud

Soundhound

Songkick

Songza

Sonos

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony BMG

Soundcloud

SoundExchange

Soundscan

Spiralfrog

Spotify

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks

Spotify ‘artist-in-residence’ D.A. Wallach

Spotify investors Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.

StubHub

SXSW

Target

Ted Cohen

Deborah Sass

Teenagers

T-Shirts

The City of San Francisco

The City of Santa Monica

The Continent of Europe

French People

The Echo Nest

The Who

Ticketmaster

TicketsNow

Tommy Silverman

Topspin

Tower Records

The Tupac Musical

Tunecore

TuneSat

Turntable.fm

Twitter

Twitter Music

Ultra Music Festival

Ultra Records

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group head of digital Rob Wells

Unpaid Interns

US Airways

The US Military

VEVO

Vivendi

Walden Venture Capital

Wal-mart

Warner Music Group

We Are Hunted

Whitney Houston

White Males

will.i.am

Wyclef Jean

Yahoo Music

Neil Young

YouTube

YouTube MusicKey

Yves Villeneuve

Brian Zisk

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