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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. Pressplay, a joint venture between Sony and Vivendi Universal, said MP3.com...
[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]
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. Pressplay announced Monday that it has signed a deal with BMG and said it is close to reaching an...
[October 16, 2002, 9:25]
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! Pressplay plans to offer several pricing options:
[December 19, 2001, 16:39]
Napster Shuffles Executives
News Mike Bebel, who came to Napster after Roxio's acquisition of the Pressplay subscription service last year, will be leaving the company after a "transitional period" and will be replaced by Roxio's head of worldwide development, Brad Duea.
[January 30, 2004, 7:50]
Microsoft Prepares Counter-attack To ITunes
News Record label-backed services such as Pressplay do not disclose their subscriber rates, but estimates for sign-ups hover in the tens of thousands -- far short of the numbers that would suggest significant consumer interest.
[May 27, 2003, 7:47]
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 Lawmakers critical of the record companies have also expressed some concern about Pressplay and MusicNet's structure. Prompted by arguments presented by Napster's legal team, US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel grilled music industry lawyers about...
[October 11, 2001, 12:01]
MP3.com Splits Into Two
News A new division, dubbed MP3 Technologies, will provide the technology for MP3.com and other Web sites, including the forthcoming Pressplay online subscription service. Through a joint venture with Sony, Vivendi Universal has been gearing up to...
[October 22, 2001, 9:04]
Next Windows Media Player Touts Services
News Microsoft might have much more than just Pressplay in mind. The Windows Media Player 9, which goes into public beta, or test, on 4 September, adds a new "Services" tab that initially allows consumers to sign up for a trial subscription to Pressplay...
[August 7, 2002, 8:36]
Listen.com To Offer Legal CD-burning
News Several other companies, including major label-backed Pressplay and independent Full Audio, also have won limited rights to let consumers burn CDs from music acquired through paid subscription services.
[October 24, 2002, 8:04]
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]
Labels Dodge Scrutiny In Napster Case
News But last October, the company brought up specifics about the way that the labels' online joint ventures, MusicNet and Pressplay, had acted. MusicNet, which is jointly owned by AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and the EMI Group, had struck a deal with...
[February 1, 2002, 12:29]
MP3.com Assets Sold
News Robertson ultimately sold the MP3.com property to Vivendi Universal, which maintained the unsigned artist database but used the company's technology to launch Pressplay, the digital music subscription service co-owned with Sony Music Entertainment.
[November 17, 2003, 9:40]
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]
Yahoo!'s New Video Not Free For Long
News was one of the first companies to secure a distribution deal with Pressplay, a joint venture between record-label owners Vivendi Universal and Sony aimed at creating a music-subscription service by year's end.
[October 30, 2001, 11:21]
Microsoft Changes Its Tune On MP3 Ripping
News They may also see with the PressPlay deal there is enough going on for MP3 to wither on its own vines. On Thursday, Microsoft cut a deal with online music service PressPlay, which agreed to offer WMA-formatted songs to MSN Music customers.
[July 16, 2001, 11:06]
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]
Apple Online Music Service Aims For Impulse Buyers
News The Apple chief pitched the music store as falling between Napster and fee-based services such as Rhapsody and Pressplay. Pressplay and Rhapsody allow users to access music for a monthly fee. Apple Computer on Monday unveiled its latest line of...
[April 29, 2003, 7:42]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
News Previously, it has given subscription services Pressplay and MusicNow access to prime digital real estate inside its Media Player software. Pressplay, recently purchased by Roxio and renamed Napster, already plans a pay-by-the-song music store...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
