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| Puretracks goes DRM free |
 Starting immediately, Canadian-owned Puretracks Inc. will offer 50,000 unrestricted digital files in an MP3 format that can be burned, e-mailed or copied to computers, portable music players and cellphones, said company president Alistair Mitchell. All the tracks come from smaller labels but they include indie giants known for favouring loose controls over music - Nettwerk, whose roster includes heavyweights Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan and Barenaked Ladies; and Arts & Crafts, stocked with buzz bands like Broken Social Scene, Feist and Phoenix. Many of these same labels already offer MP3s on their own websites and through EMusic.com, a subscription-based service whose entire catalogue is free of copy restrictions.            |
