p2pnet news view Music:-  BSkyB, Britain’s largest pay-for-TV company and the Sky Digital operator, is launching an online music subscription service.

“BSkyB is hoping to revolutionise music consumption as it did television after announcing a tie-up with the world’s biggest record label to launch an ‘all you can eat’ digital service that will compete with Apple’s iTunes,” says The Guardian, going on:

“Having signed up Universal, home to U2, Duffy and Amy Winehouse, as an equity partner in the new business, the pay TV group is also believed to be close to similar deals with other labels.”

BSkyB has clearly learned a lesson from the likes of Napster II which tried to hive rentals off on music lovers who’d pay monthly fees only to see their libraries vanish as soon as they stopped shelling out.

“The new service, scheduled to launch this year, will combine an unlimited on-demand jukebox service with a set number of monthly downloads that can be saved, even if users stop subscribing, for a single monthly charge,”  says the story.

“The pay-TV group, which has James Murdoch as its non-executive chairman, said it was in talks about signing other music companies including the major music groups and would release more details at a later date,” according to Reuters.

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The Guardian -BSkyB signs Universal for online music service, July 22, 2008
Napster II -Napster: worth more dead than alive, July 21, 2008
Reuters – BSkyB signs Universal for online music service, July 22, 2008

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