Soptify has defended itself by pointing to the money it has paid out to music rightsholders – $500m by the end of 2012, with another $500m expected this year. And while that doesn’t answer Yorke’s specific criticism about major labels, Spotify has been praised by companies in the independent music world too. In January, Beggars Group chairman Martin Mills said that 22% of his label group’s digital revenues had come from streaming in 2012. Meanwhile, independent labels’ trade body Merlin – which like the major labels has a stake in Spotify – said in May that a third of its members had seen streaming revenues more than double in the last year.

The state’s top cop is throwing the guest book at AirBnB — demanding host data from the 225,000 New Yorkers on the Web’s biggest apartment sharing site.

Due to its low frequency, signals that use white space can travel further than Wi-Fi and other radio signals. Microsoft, Google, and other organizations are planning to test mobile broadband and sensors to monitor cities and traffic using the spectrum. Microsoft, a company that has expressed interest in UK white space previously, will test white spaces in Glasgow to provide free Wi-Fi and link together a network of sensors.