Friday, July 16, 2004
Yahoo News: "Microsoft Software Drives New Online Music Offerings"
Posted by Kent Pribbernow in "NEWS" @ 03:00 PM
"Hoping to put a dent in the popularity of Apple Computer Inc.'s music download service, online music subscription providers are readying services that allow users to shift rented songs to portable digital music players. If the offerings catch on, it would mark a victory for Web music providers such as Napster, MusicNow, MusicNet, AOL and for Microsoft Corp., which is providing the software designed to ensure that the enhanced subscription-based services can be offered without opening a new front for digital piracy."
Interesting move. This would eliminate one reason why I have stayed away from subscription services, which don't allow music to be copied or transferred to other devices. What's the point of "renting" music if I can't take it with me?
The question is...will this help the proliferation and growth of the online music subscription business model? Or does this signal a last desperate move my subscriber services to stave off the increasingly successful legal music download industry?
Interesting move. This would eliminate one reason why I have stayed away from subscription services, which don't allow music to be copied or transferred to other devices. What's the point of "renting" music if I can't take it with me?
The question is...will this help the proliferation and growth of the online music subscription business model? Or does this signal a last desperate move my subscriber services to stave off the increasingly successful legal music download industry?
