Sony BMG have backed the online music downloads store We7 in the most emphatic way possible: by providing its entire back catalogue for online streaming. For free.
If you think that this seems like a massive u-turn from the publisher in its stance on music downloads, then you’d be absolutely right. Whether this move will be followed by its stable mates – presumably still opponents to downloads of free music in any form – remains to be seen and the coming months could be interesting indeed.
The move follows some other announcements by big industry players such as 24-7 entertainment, O2, Vodafone and Napster which could see free music downloads becoming the norm, rather than just a pleasant surprise. The ways we get high quality, free, legal music are fast evolving and increasing in number.
This could be more bad news for CD sales and for paid-for music downloads services like Apple’s iTunes. They will need to decide how they will weather this storm and take prompt action to avoid being buried by this new wave of providers.
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March 25th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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March 25th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
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March 25th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
[...] We7 offers music downloads – free of cost and free of DRM – of over 2 million tracks to its users. A 10 second advertisement is added to the start of the track but if you keep the track for over a month this advertisement can be removed and the track kept forever. It is a fantastic service and we all must wish it the best of luck. [...]
March 26th, 2008 at 6:33 am
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March 26th, 2008 at 7:19 am
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April 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
[...] BMG has agreed to offer its entire back catalogue for streaming from their site. For free. Wow. Music downloads and all those associated with them have scored a home run [...]
April 7th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
[...] Free Music downloads are the very near future. Keep tuned. [...]
May 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
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