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The week in review: Blame Napster As the battle over online music has musicians singing the blues to Congress, record labels and tech giants are rapping about selling digital music on the Web. Universal to buy EMusic for $24.6 million The record label says it will acquire online music service EMusic.com for $24.6 million in cash in an effort to fulfill its Internet ambitions. MP3.com ordered to pay indie $300,000 The online music provider must pay about $300,000 to independent music label TVT Records for copyright infringement, a federal jury rules.

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