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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Struggling U.S. auto manufacturers are hoping music will do for them what it did for Apple after the introduction of the iPod -- make them cool.

Comment Having been a big believer in DRM and its necessity, although dismissive of its inflexibility and lack of sophistication, we, Rethink Research, have to interpret the big news of last week that EMI will offer its catalog DRM-free, as at least dangerous and potentially disastrous. But that's only if it is looked at in the long term. In the short term it might even be beneficial to both EMI and Apple.

Apple and EMI’s mysterious announcement is a mystery no longer, as EMI becomes the first major label to take up Jobs’ bold challenge to sell music without DRM, at a small premium.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Major record companies are forcing Apple to curtail access to iTunes online stores across borders, leading to higher prices and less choice, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - European Union consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has hit out at Apple Inc.'s bundling of its popular iPod music players and its iTunes online music store, according to German weekly magazine Focus.