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Free Music Downloads Could Come With a Price: Advertising Napster Lawyers Prep Defense in Music Battle Lawyers for the music-swapping company get ready to present key arguments that could ultimately decide its fate. EMusic Spins Giveaway Deal With HP EMusic today unveiled a deal with Hewlett-Packard that will give the online music retailer at least $3 million in much-needed revenues in the coming months, as well as a chance to try a new business model.

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Dgolpe.com Receives $8 million in Financing As it prepares to expand its services to cater to European consumers, online Latin music directory Dgolpe.com Inc. has closed on an $8 million investment round led by private finance company Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. Napster to Advance Aggressive Defense, Maintaining It Enables Legal Music Swaps Napster is expected today to advance an aggressive defense against the music industry, maintaining that it is legal to use its software to swap MP3 copies of copyright-protected music CDs. BMG CEO Zelnick Calls for Legitimate Digital Market The BMG Entertainment CEO believes the industry must create legal alternatives to combat piracy, but is noncommittal about business models -- and nonchalant about superstar artists who could jump ship and strike out on their own.

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