MySpace today said it will enter the increasingly crowded digital music business with a new service, MySpace Music, that will offer free streams and sell downloads of tracks without digital rights management software.

EMI has poached Google's vice president of engineering, Douglas Merrill, to head digital operations for the Big Four record label. With Merrill, EMI is getting an executive who comes from a culture of envelope-pushing on copyright issues.

RIAA foes can relish the irony: Sony BMG is being accused of piracy. French software company PointDev alleges a raid on Sony uncovered that software on four of Sony's servers in France is pirated.