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MySpace Digital Music Service Is DRM-Free

Posted by kdawson on from the little-music-with-your-gossip dept.

Anti-Globalism sends word that MySpace flipped the switch on its online, ad-supported, DRM-free music service that will "... give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. Unlike much of the material at Apple's iTunes store, the music sold through MySpace's new service won't contain the protections that limit how many times a track can be copied. MySpace is hoping to set itself apart from iTunes even further by allowing its users to create an unlimited number of playlists containing up to 100 songs apiece, a sharing concept similar to music services already offered by Imeem and Last.fm."

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  1. neat by jacquesm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now for an easy way to get to a catalogue using XML so we can do machine-to-machine catalogue matching to download whatever we're still missing.

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  2. yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yay! DRM free! I think half of slashdot would have an orgasm if this were not linked to ads or myspace.

    But again, this is great news to 0.01% of the population that feels boxed in by iTunes DRM ...

  3. Re:What a confusing article by moofrank · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Agreed. I still cannot tell if it is ad-supported, or paid subscription, or pay per song.

    But more importantly, why can this streaming business model work, and yet Pandora is bleeding from legal fees?

  4. No Radiohead or any Independent artists, though by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, but MySpace will leave you High and Dry when it comes to indy music

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  5. Re:Bad summary by rufus+t+firefly · · Score: 2, Interesting

    or you could use Fire Fox's download helper to rip any song directly from the band's myspace page.

    Or getmsmp3, which has apparently been abandoned.... Notice reads:

    Sorry everyone, but MySpace has its own special music interests now, and this
    program can't play nice with their new business model. It's going to be hard
    enough for them to be profitable without some script out there that can grab
    content without watching ads. So getmsmp3 is officially abandoned. Sorry!

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