Sooner or later, reality will shine in on the puzzlewits at the RIAA. In the meantime, there are signs of progress:

The company behind the Puretracks.com music store said it is immediately offering songs from artists such as The Barenaked Ladies, Broken Social Scene and Sarah McLachlan under a partnership deal with major independent labels.

The labels include Nettwerk Music Group of Vancouver, Arts & Crafts Productions of Toronto, the San Francisco, Calif.-based Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) and Beggars Banquet Records of London, England.

Those are small indie labels, but some of the artists are prominent. I expect kicking, scratching, and biting from the RIAA all the way to the end.

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