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Here’s a recap of what went on in the music industry this week. Make sure to check out anything you might have missed and leave your comments. Know something we don’t? Submit a story.

Most Popular:

Amazon to Torrent Site: Stop Letting your Users Buy our Music - Amazon.com refuses to let ‘pirates’ pay for music. Solid business strategy?

Trent Reznor Quits Twitter – How Real is Too Real in Social Media? - Some fans didn’t like Reznor gushing about his love life. What happened to leaving a little mystery?

This Week:

Why Free Music Was Inevitable – Technically from last week, but there’s a lot of important stuff in here. Read this before checking out the ‘3 Ways’ articles.

3 Ways to Make Music Worth Paying For – The digital age has caused the value of music to drop. Here are a few ways to counter that trend.

3 More Ways to Make Music Worth Paying For - The last three sources of additional value.

Last.fm Founders Hand Over Keys to CBS - Two years after a $280 acquisition by CBS, the founders are out. What will this mean to users?

BitBlinder Baits RIAA with Free Anonymous File-Sharing - Can the RIAA outgun the file-sharing community?

Music Video Picks:

St. Vincent – Actor out of Work

Carina Round – Backseat

White Rabbits – Percussion Gun

This Week in Music History:

1970, The Beatles started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Long And Winding Road’, the groups 20th US No.1. The album ‘Let It Be’ started a four-week run at No.1 the US album chart on the same day.  (From This Day in Music.)