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Australia Gets Its Own Legal Music Site

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 13, 2003 @01:15AM 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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Re:Billing by GigsVT · 2003-10-13 01:55 · Score: 2, Informative

AOL was doing that in 1994. Same with Prodigy etc.

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Re:Price? by David+Gerard · 2003-10-13 02:08 · Score: 2, Informative

That's $2 Australian, which is about $1 US, i.e. it's about the same price.
What this ignores is that the cost of living is much lower in Australia, so AUD$1 in Australia feels like USD$1 in the US.

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Typo by Rogerborg · 2003-10-13 02:09 · Score: 3, Informative

They're not selling, they're renting. See Microsoft's example of Subscription Models for why.

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