[/p]The rouge actions of Universal Music Group does not surprise me one bit. What surprises me is that there is not a single artist on their roster who would protest these actions. After all, its the hip-hop sites and blogs who make most artist highly popular before their single reaches radio.[/p]A few weeks ago, leading ad firm GroupM, a part of marketing giant WPP, proudly announced that it had "adopted an aggressive new anti-piracy policy" for its digital media buys. What that meant was that it prohibited vendors that it worked with from putting ads on any of a giant list of sites that it had declared were "pirate sites"[/p]To read a list of the websites visit TechDirt[/p]