Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records, was released from Oregon's Sheridan Detention Center on Monday (8/6), according to published reports. Knight served nearly five years of a nine-year sentence that stemmed from assault charges, though the five years were not spent solely at Sheridan.

Poison [ tickets ]'s bassist Bobby Dall underwent emergency back surgery on Sunday (8/5), and as a result, Poison has canceled its shows through Sept. 2, Pollstar.com reported. Poison was touring with Warrant, Quiet Riot and Enuff Z'Nuff on the Glam Slam Metal Jam.

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox announced that it has moved the release Mariah Carey's movie "Glitter" from Aug. 31 to Sept. 21.

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Bassist and vocalist Richie Lee of the Los Angeles band Acetone was found dead in his home on July 23, the victim of a suicide, according to Vapor Records. He was 34. Acetone, which rose from the remnants of the punk/surf band Spinout in the early 90s, released four full-length albums.

Country.com reported that country singer Darryl Worley invited industry people to a show on the lawn of DreamWorks Nashville, the purpose of which was to ask the assembled to vote for him for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award.

According to the article, record labels "have been campaigning for votes this year with noteworthy vigor and directness."

Reuters and CNet.com ran articles on Tuesday (8/7) about major labels working on developing copy-proof CDs. In both articles, analysts predicted that consumers would not buy these CDs if they knew that they couldn't copy them.

Is that true? If you knew that you couldn't copy a CD that you wanted to hear, and there was no copy-able version available, would you simply not buy it?

According to Webnoize, the file-trading service that will be the "new Napster" is Fasttrack. "Over 600,000 users are logged on to the Fasttrack network during peak hours. ... In total, millions of consumers around the globe are using the system to gain access to free music, software and pornography.''

One should remember that porn fans seized the development of peer-to-peer technology before music fans did. What America needs to do is to somehow link, say, the development of cold fusion, or the shelf life of artificial blood, to porn, and harness that urgency. There is nothing that this nation can't accomplish with porn addicts on the case.