July 29, 2003
More Music Service Changes
Well it looks like the wave of changes to legal music services is really picking up steam. Pressplay is going to be relaunched as Napster 2.0 with a hybrid subscription/pay-per download model (how this differs from the current Pressplay model I have no idea, but they're saying it's different). MusicMatch is also adding a pay-per download option to it's service. From the second article an interesting quote:
Beyond the pricing issues, MusicMatch chief executive Dennis Mudd told the conference that the crucial key to a successful music service lies in portability -- the ability to move music beyond the PC and on to devices in the home and in the car.
Yep, so how about just getting rid of the stupid DRM then? That's all that's necessary to turn the current ho-hum services into home run services. Put in the same DRM like BuyMusic.com and well you may as well not even bother. Posted by kstaken at July 29, 2003 12:10 AM | TrackBack