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Australia Gets Its Own Legal Music Site

Posted by Hemos on from the striking-deals-abroad dept.

nfras writes "News Ltd is carrying a story about how Australia's largest (and government owned) telco has done a deal with Warner Music to sell music online. It will use Windows Media format and will be similar in pricing to US sites."

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  1. Waltzing Matilda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bad news, they are only offering versions of "Waltzing Matilda", Mad Max theme songs, and "Beds are Burning" by the Midnight Oils. "Men at Work" are still holding out on the contract.

  2. "Similar in pricing to..." by 91degrees · · Score: 2, Funny

    We get that in Europe too. It means "More expensive than..."

  3. Re:Very Good by alecthomas · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can only assume that you are not an Australian, as the statement "competition, lower prices and higher quality" has never applied to Telstra.

    I think it highly unlikely that this will have any affect, except to make Telstra more money.