MTV online downloads
p2p news / p2pnet: MTV says it’s ready to join the corporate music market, such as it is.
It reminds one of the early days of mp3 when one company after another was, lemming-like, announcing a ‘new’ online music ’service’.
The fact they were all charging the same $1 for the same lossy downloads from severely proscribed catalogues supplied at exorbitant wholesale prices by Warner Music, Vivendi Universal, EMI and Sony BMG didn’t seem to matter. They’d been assured punters would flock in their millions to the sites.
But it didn’t happen and for the moment, the vast bulk of fans continue to look to the non-corporate indie sites and p2p networks for their music fixes.
But ultimately, the members of the Big Four Organized Music gang, all under investigation for price fixing, among other things, will be forced to lower their prices, open their catalogues and stop trying to sue their own customers into submission. And MTV wants to be there when it happens.
Keeping a promise it made last year to join the corporate throng, tomorrow it’ll open Urge, whose backers include “a triumvirate of warblers“, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin and Gretchen Wilson.
The deal also adds another scalp to the growing list of corporate hopefuls tuned into to Microsoft DRM.
Also See:
triumvirate of warblers – Microsoft gets the MTV Urge, December 14, 2005
May 16th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
I love music.
I am prepared to spend good money on music, support artists.
I am NOT prepared to tolerate DRM.
The sooner the Big Four and anyone who has any deals with them realise this is how the vast majority of consumers feel, the better.