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Wal-Mart, says a report at Engadget, has reversed its earlier decision to cut its DRM servers and thereby rendering useless tracks with Microsoft DRM purchased at the store.

• CEO/chariman Doug Morris has re-signed with Universal Music Group. (Billboard.biz)

In recent weeks I have noticed Girl Talk's Feed the Animals at a number of download stores. His albums may or may not violate copyright law, depending on who you ask, and availability has been an issue. I don't recall seeing such good sales from an album with such dubious legal standing.

Atlantic rapper T.I. has passed two million MySpace friends, his MySpace page has over 82.6 million views and his hit single "Whatever You Like" has over 27 million streams at MySpace. Right now all of the songs at his MySpace page are collectively getting well over one million streams per day and to date have streamed over 138 million times.

• UK retailer Carphone Warehouse will put together a bundle of products that should help spur interest in Nokia's Comes With Music service.

Ipsos’ TEMPO Digital Music Brandscape study shows improvements in brands have been made by iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon.com while Napster, MySpace, Wal-Mart and Yahoo have experienced brand erosion over the last year (press release).

• After the city council voted 7-2 in favor of zoning changes that will allow Live Nation to move ahead with its plans for a new Fillmore venue in Silver Spring, MD. It's a sweet deal for Live Nation. The the council and the Maryland legislature will spend $8 million to build the venue and Live Nation will rent the venue from the county.

The Financial Times reported today that EMI is working on its own portal through which it can sell music and video content directly to consumers. Some aspects of the site will be free. The launch is expected before Christmas.

Spotify, a new music streaming service currently in invitation-only beta, announced today its launch and the involvement of all four major music groups as well as Merlin and The Orchard (press release).

• Universal Music Group has hooked up with Dada Entertainment to offer its catalog as MP3 full-track downloads and ringtones. Dada Entertainment is a joint venture between Dada Music and Sony Music. (Press release)