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Universal and Sony Plan "Free" Music Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the get-what-you-pay-for dept.

Damon Tog writes "Macworld reports that Universal Music Group has enlisted the help of Sony to join forces in a new music service. The price of the subscription is expected to be built-in to the cost of digital music players, leaving the music 'free' to the consumer. 'The plan is still in flux and faces several hurdles, BusinessWeek notes. Among them is finding a business model that allows the hardware makers to subsidize the cost of the music. In addition, the labels have tried to develop their own online music services before without success.'"

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  1. it's en fuego by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Macworld reports that Universal Music Group has enlisted the help of Sony to join forces in a new music service.

    Initial reports indicate this offer is really "heating up", but that's only because the music players use Sony batteries.

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  2. What the title should be... by supabeast! · · Score: 3, Funny

    If some real investigative journalism were going on, the article would be titled "How Sony and Universal plan to lobby Congress to force hardware makers to pay the record companies for a crappy music subscription service that consumers don't want."

  3. Re:IDDIIIIIOOOOOTS by NewYorkCountryLawyer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Honestly, please stop using bolds everywhere and words like "IDDIIIIIOOOOOTS" (negates the point of bolds when half your submission is bolded). You're comments should be strong enough on the value of your words not by shoving them down everyone's throats by over the top formatting. And to me I thought "IDDIIIIIOOOOOTS" was an understatement.
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