musically.com — Paying a monthly subscription fee, users will be able to stream AND download as many music tracks and albums as they want from UMG’s entire catalog. The unlimited music service was announced today won’t launch until later in the year.
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pigeonJun 15, 2009
1. Sell unlimited internet at speeds you do not have the infrastructure for.2. Cap people when they stress your infrastructure because you fail.3. Announce "Unlimited music", this COULD be a sign of infrastructure updates.... Now... do you really think 4 and 5 will look like this:4. Allow people to use their paid for connections at full speed for more than 20 mins without any caps!5. Allow unlimited music service downloads.It will probably look like this:4. Keep capping customers on normal internet connections, after all they just want to read email/look at stupid videos right? They can't be doing something that important or useful.5. Allow unlimited downloads on the music service because we are now in the music industries pocket and their traffic will have oh so much more priority than that from normal customers.
frostekJun 15, 2009
Pandora is blocked in the UK.
taffelewisJun 15, 2009
I wouldnt say that. I am excited about it because if anything this will only make it easier to find what you are looking for on the torrent sites. Not that I would do something like that...but you know, excited for the people who do.
combo808Jun 15, 2009
Universal Music Group is the only major player in the music industry today. Sony/BMG is defunked and publishing rights were sold to Universal. Warner music group has had their funding slashed and hold only have a handful of artists. Universal had to make this move, its obviously a last resort attempt to keep the company alive. Artists were all jumping ship and were only signing distribution deals with these labels. When you have an influential artist like Jay-Z say he's going independent publicly, then you know changes have to be done.
bdbrJun 15, 2009
"Sony/BMG is defunked"Does that mean they sold off their R&B division?
jcrashJun 16, 2009
From the Yahoo article:All of the MP3 downloads will be DRM-free, which means consumers will be able to play them indefinitely on whatever device they choose.
riccalloJun 16, 2009
Not me. If I try downloading anything between the hours of 3pm and midnight I can't. I'm aware that this is 'peak time' but then again I am paying for a 16mb connection, sometimes I even struggle to load webpages duing these hours. That's simply unacceptable. As someone else has already said, ISPs on one hand complain about the Iplayer and other download services for clogging their network and then on the other hand launch stuff like this. They can't have it both ways. I fail to see how if I am giving them my money it's not their responsibility to upgrade their network so that it CAN handle Iplayer downloads. Afterall these services are going to become more and more common as time goes on, just bite the bullet, stop bitching and upgrade the cables so that I can go on the internet during normal hours as opposed to midnight to 5am.
tyler2tall147Jun 16, 2009
they had drm, when you cancelled you lost the mp3s
blydchyldJun 16, 2009
What the heck are you talking about.Your complaining that the 2Mb service you chose to pay for (which is being upped to 10mb for free anyway) is too slow?In that case go get the 50Mb package, it rox my world.I suppose your pissed that your Fiat punto isnt as fast as a 911?
blydchyldJun 16, 2009
Riccalo, your on Virgin national ADSL there isnt any throttling at all.Therefore your wrong.
Closed AccountJul 13, 2009
No, it won't... It will get bent and mixed up instead...<a class="user" href="http://www.capitalexhibits.com/">http://www.capitalexhibits.com/</a>