p2pnet.net News:- Melodeo and Warner Music Group (WMG) say they’ve signed the first global agreement to allow mobile users to “securely” download complete mp3s from WMG’s music catalog directly to their phones.

For “secure” read DRM.

“Select U.S. mobile phone operators will begin implementing the Melodeo mobile music solution in 2005,” say the Big Four music cartel member and Melodeo, based in Seattle.

Melodeo says it’ll provide downloads to wireless subscribers through an application in the handset which will let consumers, “shop, preview, purchase, play and store full-length music tracks all from their wireless phone.”

Concurrently, Telefonica says it, too, will market the Melodeo mobile-music service to Telefonica subscribers in Spain under the brand name Mplay.

“Melodeo offers its easy-to-use distribution model that at the same time supports the Digital Rights Management initiative, securing artist and label compensation,” says the company.

Neither Warner nor Melodeo gives a price for the service. Nor do they say if users will tap the same scant selections as people who pay $1 and more to download mp3s from corporate sites backed and supplied by Warner and the other three cartel members, Sony-BMG, UMG and EMI, or give details of download qualities.

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See:-
mobile music – Melodeo, Warner Music Group Sign First Global Agreement to Bring Full Track Downloads to Mobile Phones, Press Release, December 15, 2004

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