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    • Alanis Morissette
    • Ten years after the original release, comes the traditional celebratory acoustic re-recording. The album has held up remarkably well. While it is not as meaningful to me as it was when I was sixteen,
  • An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Torm�

    • 10 out of 10
    • Mel Torm� & George Shearing
    • Of the three men who taught me how to sing, the last was Mel Torme. Apparently, Mel Torme is a joke to anyone more than a decade older than me, a living parody of a Vegas crooner. But I stumbled on th
  • Physical Graffiti

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    • Led Zeppelin
    • This album bears every flavor of genius from the five records that came before. It is, I believe, the band's finest. With Physical Graffiti, Zep came raging back to their musical home territory -- har
  • Modern Lovers

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    • This timeless masterpiece is little known, but it has inspired almost as many bands as The Modern Lovers' own inspiration -- and only slightly better known -- The Velvet Underground & Nico.

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    • While she didn't always have the best taste in song selection, Aretha Franklin is a must-study for anyone with interest in the human voice. She has the kind of powerful, recklessly passionate deliv

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EMI Considers DRM-free Music

Big name record label EMI is considering selling its music library without any digital rights management copy protection in an effort to help increase music download sales. The Wall Street Journal reports that the label is currently gathering information from several iTunes Store competitors including eMusic.com, MTV Networks, MusicNet, and RealNetworks to determine if the idea is financially viable.

EMI's probe into DRM-free music marks a major departure from the other "big four" record labels that consider copy protection to be vital in protecting online music sales from piracy. The move is, however, in line with comments Apple CEO Steve Jobs made in his open letter that speaks out against copy protection in digital songs.

In the letter, Mr. Jobs said that DRM is ineffective and is hampering the growth of online music sales. It goes on to say that the recording labels are responsible for imposing music copy protection on consumers, and that allowing for copy protection-free music sales from online stores would help give consumers the same experience they get when buying a physical CD.

The increase in legitimate music downloads has not been able to keep up with the declining sales in physical CDs, which is something the labels have been working to overcome. Even though they might lose some sales to music pirates if tracks are sold without DRM, the possibility of additional legitimate downloads is enough to keep EMI actively pursuing the idea.

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