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Robert Andrews
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008; 12:06 PM

Karlheinz Brandenburg, credited with at least jointly "inventing" MP3, has joined with a German development bank to invest in DJTunes, a European music download site offering house, techno, trance and electro tracks in that very file format.

DJTunes targets DJs, club-goers and labels and claims over 300,000 tracks, all in the DRM-free format that is beloved of DJs for its lack of copyright locks - if not exactly for its high fidelity. The site lets users upload and sell their tracks and mixes, and will use the funds in part to branch out by launching a hip-hop site next year. The investment is made along with Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen (BM|T) though the size is undisclosed; DJTunes also got seed funds in 2006. Release. More at paidContent:UK?



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