In the May 2009 issue of Seattle Sound Magazine, Andy Werth’s latest realease, Burn The Maps and Bury The Compass was givin 3.5 stars.  Thank you Andy Werth, Jason Lackie & Tom Hall for creating an album that is getting some great press and radio play. 

AP - French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.

AFP - French lawmakers Wednesday started examining a new version of a contested bill that would cut off illegal downloaders from the Internet, in a tough new precedent for efforts to fight film and music piracy.

PC Magazine - It's not every day that a court case drags a product roadmap out into the light of day. Yet that's what happened with Facet, a set-top box that RealNetworks hopes will do for DVDs what MP3s did for the home stereo. But don't get your hopes up; a judge could kill Facet before it ever ships.

AFP - Internet rights champions have accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get iPods to work with music websites other than iTunes.

AP - The recording industry has agreed to accept $7,000 to settle a piracy lawsuit it brought against a suburban New York family.

NewsFactor - Lawyers for defendants in The Pirate Bay case are demanding a retrial. Four men were sentenced last week to one year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5 million to several copyright owners, including Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Bros., and Columbia Pictures, after being found guilty of enabling downloading of copyrighted material.

Reuters - German music authors' society GEMA said on Thursday it was in talks with Google Inc's YouTube to resolve a dispute over royalty payments and the conditions under which music videos are made available online.

AP - A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute music and movies online amid reports the same software was exploited to gain unauthorized access to government and private data.

PC World - Music lovers who download tunes illegally are much more likely to buy music than those who don’t use P2P networks like The Pirate Bay, according a new study out of Norway. But the recording industry says the report is off-key.