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New Music Business Briefing For 2/27/07: Changes At eMusic, BitTorrent Gets Legit, Tequila Says No To Labels, & More

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  We hear that there were a few layoffs at eMusic last week. Are profits down or are they just trying to make the numbers pretty before looking for a buyer? 
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>>> Meanwhile eMusic head David Packman is publicly predicting that DRAM will be dead by 2008.  He may be right but it’s interesting that he’s leading the charge for a change that could add a lot of competition that would challenge his own business.

>>> BitTorrent has opened a paid movie and TV download store. Music is said to be up next.

>>> Tila Tequila who has almost 1.7 million friends on MySpace claims to have rejected two labels and is releasing her first single exclusively via iTunes. 

>>> Politically themed music scored well at the Oscars.

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