AOL Enters Music Service Fray

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @03:50AM from the buy-the-cow-or-get-free-milk dept.

Masem writes "Several sites, including The Washington Post and News.com report that AOL is planning to enter the online music service market with its own MusicNet offering. The service rates vary from $4 to $18/month, the latter giving you unlimited downloads and streaming content and 10 burnable tracks a month to CD. Future plans will include a pay-as-you-burn cost as well, expected later this year. However, the service is strictly limited to AOL customers, making many wonder if it will grab enough attention of the current subscriber base to actually be of value."

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This will ONLY work with the AOL dumb-ographic by Sabu+mark · 2003-02-26 03:57 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Restricting this scheme to AOL hillbillies probably won't hurt it's chances of success.

If you're smart enough not to use AOL, then not only are you probably smart enough to know how to burn music without paying for it, but you're probably also smart enough not to use cheesy proprietary music formats and software that are booby-trapped with DRM and spyware and god knows what else.

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