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MusicNet, Pressplay closing in on labels
News MusicNet and Pressplay are close to rounding out their music offerings with deals that would allow them to provide songs from all five major labels. Meanwhile, sources close to MusicNet said it's completed a deal with UMG and is within days of...
[October 16, 2002, 9:25]
MusicNet deal provides Real profits
News RealNetworks paid about $1.25m (£792,317) to its MusicNet venture for royalties and services last year, but it recouped nearly $1.6m (£1m) from the streaming-music subscription service, a regulatory filing disclosed late on Tuesday.
[April 23, 2003, 12:11]
MusicNet chief: Download this, not Napster
News When MusicNet came up with version 1.0, many people complained it was too limiting. Since becoming chief executive of MusicNet last October, McGlade has held non-stop meetings with music labels, publishers and recording artists to get permission to...
[July 19, 2002, 9:22]
Real undercuts iTunes with 50p Rhapsody
News RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service MusicNet in favour of Listen.com's Rhapsody, and plans to charge a new low of 79 cents (49p) per track to rip CDs. It is also a visible sign that RealNetworks has opted to...
[May 28, 2003, 15:17]
RealNetworks unveils Napster-like service
News RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser gave a first public look on Thursday at the MusicNet subscription service his company is building, describing features that resemble Napster's file-swapping service.
[May 18, 2001, 9:44]
MSN joins Net music skirmishes
News Microsoft is throwing its hat into the post-Napster online music ring, targeting the same audience rival RealNetworks seeks with its ambitious MusicNet service. The first major announcement in that regard came Monday, as AOL Time Warner, EMI Music...
[April 4, 2001, 9:30]
RealNetworks signs online music pact
News In a widely anticipated move, RealNetworks on Monday formed a pact with media giants AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI Group to bring about a new music subscription service online, dubbed MusicNet.
[April 2, 2001, 13:17]
Justice Dept ends scrutiny of record labels
News When originally revealed in mid-2001, the regulators' investigation was said to be focused on the MusicNet and Pressplay online-music joint ventures and the possibility that the record labels were colluding to favour their own affiliated services...
[December 24, 2003, 7:55]
Record labels targeted in Napster suit
News MusicNet is a joint venture and did not tell the labels the provisions of its agreement, said Russell Frackman, attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America. Prompted by arguments presented by Napster's legal team, US District Judge...
[October 11, 2001, 12:01]
RealNetworks launches subscription music service
News Although MusicNet is in negotiations with Sony and Vivendi to expand its catalog, no agreement has been reached. Other services based on MusicNet are expected, including a product from AOL Time Warner's America Online division that has been...
[December 4, 2001, 16:00]
Real spreads Rhapsody
News RealNetworks is also a 40 percent owner of MusicNet, a music subscription technology service that competes with Listen.com. RealNetworks has been using MusicNet's service for the past year, but poor reviews of the underlying technology have kept...
[February 27, 2003, 9:29]
Online music services accused of anti-competitiveness
News But the creation of the recording industry's online music services, Pressplay and MusicNet, has long been the focus of Boucher's criticism. Pressplay is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group...
[July 9, 2002, 10:41]
Yahoo! sings Duet's tunes
News Executives behind Duet and MusicNet have stated their intention to offer music from as many labels as possible. But no one has given strict assurances that MusicNet and Duet will work together, which could bode poorly for the labels.
[April 5, 2001, 16:20]
MP3.com sets sights on subscriptions
News The record industry to date has been beefing up such initiatives as seen with the development of MusicNet and Pressplay, formerly known as Duet. In April, record labels Warner Music Group, EMI Recorded Music and BMG Entertainment joined with...
[June 13, 2001, 16:16]
Vivendi presses play on music site
News MusicNet is a coalition between RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI. The launch comes shortly after the service's main rival, MusicNet, began offering its service to RealNetworks and America Online users.
[December 19, 2001, 16:39]
AOL swaps Real for Dolby
News AOL and RealNetworks have partnered to launch MusicNet, an online subscription service that uses RealNetworks' streaming and download technology. AOL is MusicNet's primary distribution partner. America Online is expected to announce that it will...
[March 25, 2003, 12:47]
MP3.com splits into two
News A rival service, known as MusicNet, has the backing of RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI Group. MP3 might have interest in being a MusicNet distributor and a Pressplay distributor, so it just might help them have some independence...
[October 22, 2001, 9:04]
Pressplay to offer unlimited downloads
News Pressplay, along with rival MusicNet and independent companies including Listen.com, FullAudio and RioPort, has spent the last seven months trying to persuade consumers to pay for music subscription services instead of downloading from peer-to...
[August 1, 2002, 7:41]
AOL in subscription-music trial
News Record label executives welcomed AOL's release, calling it a big stride forward for MusicNet's technology, and for reaching new online audiences. The company's software engineers have subsequently spent the past seven months working on the MusicNet...
[February 26, 2003, 15:51]
Listen.com signs up big players
News This shift comes as record companies see offline revenue dipping for the first time in a decade -- and as the Justice Department opens an antitrust investigation into their MusicNet and Pressplay online distribution joint ventures.
[January 8, 2002, 15:33]
