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February 27, 2008

Digital Music News: Entrepreneurs lash out at lopsided label deals. ""There's too much squeeze up front, and companies can't survive five, seven years,' explained David Del Beccaro, president and founder of Music Choice. 'This is a ten-year transition.'"

Post I.T.: "Can companies distribute music legally while still attracting a large enough audience to be successful? A rather heated exchange over this very question occurred onstage during one of the panels this morning."

paidContent interview with Napster president Brad Duea: "If you come in and you stream, that’s basically an unlimited subscription… the one place that we will still have DRM is on the portable subscription."

Listening Post has quotes from all sorts of speakers as well as a summary of the keynote interview with Sony BMG head of digital Thomas Hesse. Definitely read the Hesse post.

• Also at Listening Post is a recap of an interview with MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson. "Our position is that the consumer owns the music and can move it onto the device they want, and it's okay for us to help them do that. The DMCA says that if you're storing a file at the request of the user, you're generally free from copyright claims as long as you do it responsibly."

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