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Because good news makes everyone smile, the nominations for the Yahoo! Internet Life Awards were announced today. The Best Label Site nominees are Columbia Records, Astralwerks, Atomic Pop, TVT and Universal Music Group. The award ceremony is July 24 at Studio 54. VH1.com is cybercasting it. Winners will send in their acceptance speeches via e-mail. Rumors that the awards themselves have already been downloaded via Gnutella couldn't be confirmed…MediaWebcast has hired Edward L. Gilreath as VP of Retail Sales and Marketing. Gilreath has worked at Motown, Warner Bros., Island, Geffen, UNI Distribtuion and most recently at Domo. MediaWebcast produces and distributes live action and Web-enhanced content. If only the MediaWebcast.com URL worked… Talk about a match made in heaven: Napster founder Shawn Fanning just tried to sell his 1995 Mazda RX-7 on the eBay auction site. Even with three senior executives that have passed the Bar, lawyer fees are expensive… Or perhaps he's worried about The Tabloids, a band that urges the sabotage of Napster via stopnapster.com. The unknown group calls for people to mislabel songs and insert anti-piracy speeches into tracks. Yeah, that'll stop ‘em… And the 417^th announcement in as many days (and in the wake of the San Diego-based MP3 Summit) from MP3.com: They've signed an agreement with About.com. About is a topic-specifc Web set with guides, it will use MP3.com's music services in related areas. Wonder if that includes the law section.