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Online music services accused of anti-competitiveness
News Record industry executives and critics are trading barbs at an industry conference this week, with an outspoken legislator saying major labels' online subscription services may amount to a "duopoly. But the creation of the recording industry's...
[July 9, 2002, 10:41]
Microsoft preps content locks for devices
News Microsoft is preparing an upgrade to its anti-piracy technology aimed at bridging the gap that continues to separate online music subscription services and portable devices such as MP3 players. As a result, most of the big subscription services...
[April 5, 2002, 9:28]
AOL in subscription-music trial
News Legal online music services will begin their biggest test in the US on Wednesday, as AOL launches a long-awaited paid subscription music plan aimed at competing with free services such as Kazaa. To a large extent, AOL's decision to offer the...
[February 26, 2003, 15:51]
RealNetworks launches subscription music service
News RealNetworks launched its much-anticipated subscription service for online music Tuesday, offering a major test of consumer demand for paid content on the Web. Despite differences between subscription services, most are expected to contain some...
[December 4, 2001, 16:00]
Indie labels test mainstream online waters
News It launched on Monday with deals in place to negotiate digital rights on behalf of 50 labels whose music it hopes to place with the growing Net download and subscription services. The move towards organisation of independent labels could help speed...
[August 26, 2003, 11:55]
Real competitors could go for gold
News By contrast, many of the subscription services now launching are focused exclusively on music. More than half a dozen outlets, including some of the biggest names on the Net, will be launching subscription services for the first time.
[November 21, 2001, 12:16]
Apple readying music download service
News Apple has previously found itself snubbed by most of the early movie and music subscription services, in part because of its refusal to build strict digital rights management tools into its products. Most of the other authorised subscription plans...
[March 5, 2003, 10:36]
Pressplay slips onto MP3.com
News Pressplay said on Tuesday that it has launched its online music subscription service on MP3.com, whose technology division provides a blueprint for the Pressplay service. People pay a monthly subscription fee to access Pressplay's online music...
[January 23, 2002, 12:02]
Pressplay to offer unlimited downloads
News Stung by tepid market reception to its online music subscription service, major music label-backed Pressplay plans to offer listeners access to an unlimited supply of music for a set period for a single fee.
[August 1, 2002, 7:41]
RealPlayer chief: Subscription will work
News And its manifestation -- monthly subscription music services such as that offered by RealNetworks' Rhapsody -- will be the predominant way people access audio online in the years to come, Glaser contends.
[October 31, 2003, 13:25]
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]
Anti-piracy feud bodes ill for Web music
News People using hot new music devices such as Apple Computer's iPod or Compaq Computer's iPaq will not be able to play music from the Pressplay and MusicNet subscription services, which for the first time will make songs legally available online.
[November 26, 2001, 14:54]
MP3.com sets sights on subscriptions
News The debut of MP3.com's new subscription offering signals the latest effort to move online music fans away from free downloadable music to paid services. unveiled a partnership with Duet, a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Sony Music...
[June 13, 2001, 16:16]
Firms rush to sell songs online
News Musicmatch said it would use the jukebox music player as the gateway into the music store -- as Apple has -- and, at least for now, the company is avoiding the kind of all-you-can-eat monthly subscription plans that Listen.com, America Online and...
[July 29, 2003, 10:33]
Liquid Audio starts Christian music download service
News The BurnItFirst service joins a rash of online music subscription services, including Pressplay and MusicNet, which are all aiming to take the lead in a market that has yet to fully evolve from free file-swapping services.
[April 29, 2002, 8:38]
Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft
News For more than a month, the company has been combating a program released online called FairUse4WM, which successfully stripped anticopying guards from songs downloaded through subscription media services such as Napster or Yahoo Music.
[September 27, 2006, 8:40]
Listen.com signs up big players
News Paid music subscription services launched en masse only last month, with options appearing on RealNetworks, Yahoo! EMI distributes music through MusicNet, Pressplay and now Rhapsody, as well as several other fledgling subscription plans.
[January 8, 2002, 15:33]
MSN joins Net music skirmishes
News All of the big portals, as well as music labels and smaller online music companies, are scrambling to be in a position to attract online music lovers to new subscription services as free music disappears from Napster.
[April 4, 2001, 9:30]
Jupiter research legitimises Napster et al
News The challenge for subscription services will be in persuading consumers to move away from free services, which Jupiter predicts will happen by guaranteeing file quality and offering virus protection rather than by bundling extra content
[July 24, 2000, 14:29]
Vivendi presses play on music site
News Pressplay, which will charge people a monthly subscription fee to download and stream digital music, launched through its Web distribution partnerships with Yahoo! Yahoo in particular has repositioned its business to focus on diversifying revenues...
[December 19, 2001, 16:39]
