Puretracks, a major Canadian online music seller, has just launched DRM-free music for some of its music titles. While the major label music remains locked behind Windows-based DRM, Puretracks is offering 50,000 titles in clean MP3 format. Participating labels include some of Canada's leading indie labels such as Nettwerk and […]
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Government policy makers have long talked about simplifying the Copyright Act. I don't think this is what they have in mind, but it is very clever.

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