The Irish group U2 has decided to delay the publication of his next album, which was scheduled for this autumn, until early 2009, while the band continues writing and recording new material, reported the band in its official Internet page.

“I thought we were going to have the album ready now, but why publish it now if there is still invaluable material to be discovered?” Writes Bono, the leader of the group, U2.com.

So far, the Irish quartet has been recorded in southern France, Fez (Morocco) and Dublin (Ireland) with his usual collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite.

“We know that we must emerge soon, but we also know that people do not want another disc of U2 unless our best work to date,” Bono added. “There must be more innovative, more challenging.”

Bono also says that the group now has 50 or 60 songs that include believed to be in the continuation of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, his latest work, 2004.

“Right now we seek a transition similar to what happened between The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby,” Bono added. “We wish that 2009 is our year.”

As part of its efforts to straighten out his life as a pop singer, Britney Spears will participate in a new MTV reality show.   This program will use the space to gain ground in the minds of viewers and be prepared for her such commented return.

Relatives and close friends of Spears do not believe appropriate their participation in television, but apparently she has ignored the recommendations, according to page dailystar.co.uk.

According to the Daily Star, her father is furious, while his mother feared that Britney occupy the space to criticize the book recently published by his mom, and with whom Britney disagreed.

This is not the first time that Britney is participating in a reality. The first time was with her then husband, Kevin Federline on “Britney and Kevin Chaotic,” which was not successful as far as the short time, was cancelled.

Simple. With one goverment study we can debunk the lie created by the music industry about “pirates” and their supposedly spin over losses.

* When assessing the P2P downloading population, there was “a strong positive relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file sharing increases CD purchases.” The study estimates that one additional P2P download per month increases music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.

* When viewed in the aggreggate (ie. the entire Canadian population), there is no direct relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchases in Canada. According to the study authors, “the analysis of the entire Canadian population does not uncover either a positive or negative relationship between the number of files downloaded from P2P networks and CDs purchased. That is, we find no direct evidence to suggest that the net effect of P2P file sharing on CD purchasing is either positive or negative for Canada as a whole.

Thanks to Boing Boing.