UK music service for cell phones
p2pnet.net news:- Britain’s Omnifone mobile music company has teamed up with with Orange and Vodafone to sell downloan rentals through MusicStation.
The companies hope to get punters across Europe to pay up to £3 (close to $6) a week to borrow music, and they want to be rolling before iPhone crosses the Atlantic.
“Unlike Apple`s recently-announced iPhone, MusicStation downloads its music over-the-air (OTA), meaning that users will be able to have access to music at any time, irrespective of their location, rather than having to find an internet connection or hotspot,” says The Telegraph.
“Among the draw-backs is the fact that users will not be able to transfer their current music collections to the new service.”
But that’s not all.
As Omnifone proudly boasts, MusicStation comes pre-loaded with built-in DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control, and as with all similar music rental services, the instant users stop paying, their music dies.
“Anyone cancelling their subscription can store their music collection and playlists on the network and return to them some other time, but all tracks downloaded onto a phone will be locked,” says Guardian Unlimited, adding:
“While the subscription element of the service is going to take some customer education, it obviously plays into the hands of the music industry that lives in fear of having its intellectual property stolen.”
Also See:
The Telegraph – New mobile music service undercuts iTunes, February 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited – UK dotcom tycoons take on Apple with iPhone competitor, January 24, 2007
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February 12th, 2007 at 9:59 am
i actually like these services because it shows how desperate and ridiculous they think we are.
unfortunately the 90 year old man wanting to play beethoven on his cell phone will forget he rented it and keep paying for it blindly.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I was wondering how they would beat this free new technology called DIDIOM –
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,53739