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Three major labels — Vivendi’s Universal, Warner Music and EMI — last year started selling DRM-free music online, with Sony BMG widely expected to soon follow suit. And today, Napster said it will soon start selling music downloads as unprotected MP3 files. The industry is hastily reinventing itself as it comes to terms with the uncomfortable realization that companies like Apple and Amazon own their distribution, even as the RIAA tries to put the download genie back in the legal bottle.
