Public bug reported:

The My Music scope tries to download artist biography from
dash.ubuntu.com when displaying the artist overview page.  It in turn
tries to retrieve the biography via the 7digital API.

However, the 7digital API always returns an empty string because they
don't have a license to provide the biographies shown in their own web
store:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/7digital-api/mtMWAOAiIB0/s6933tEZ0BYJ

While dash.ubuntu.com could be modified to retrieve biographies
elsewhere, at the moment the scope is just wasting time and bandwidth by
asking for the data.  So in the short term we are better off disabling
the biography download code.

** Affects: unity-scope-mediascanner (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  My Music scope attempts todownload artist biography, but biography is
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