p2pnet.net News:- Here’s a big surprise - Virgin Digital is developing a digital jukebox and online music store with MusicNet that’s slated to go up by the end of August.

And why not? Everyone else is doing it and whether or not any of these corporate music shops offer anything for the money - particularly value - is entirely beside the point.

The Net is already swamped with Big Music-backed stores offering more or less the same songs for around $1 a go but, “We’re not afraid not to be first movers in this space,” Zack Zalon, president of Virgin Digital, is quoted as saying in a Reuters story here.

“We think that if we time it right, it will be the second movers who win.”

Virgin will be using Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio, or WMA.

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