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That's what it feels like to use the three paid digital-music services that are jockeying for your pocket in the wake of the old Napster's demise. They are MusicNet, owned by three of the five big record labels; Pressplay, owned by the other two; and a prelaunch trial version of the newly legal Napster. All three are so restrictive, you would think you were downloading homeland-security documents, not 'N Sync. And because the record labels are still squabbling about Internet licensing, nobody has a complete selection except those street-corner kids: morally dubious services like Morpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting All the Wrong Notes | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...MusicNet is a service found on both AOL (part of the parent company of this magazine) and Real Networks' media player, RealOne. It costs $9.99 a month, and you get 100 downloads timed to expire at the end of that period. To hear them after a month, you must download them again. I barely remember to do the laundry every month; now I have to renew my rights to Peggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting All the Wrong Notes | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...MusicNet is a service found on both AOL (part of the parent company of this magazine) and Real Networks' media player, RealOne. It costs $9.99 a month, and you get 100 downloads timed to expire at the end of that period. To hear them after a month, you must download them again. I barely remember to do the laundry every month; now I have to renew my rights to Peggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who'll Pay for the New Napster? | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...That's what it feels like to use the three paid digital-music services that are jockeying for your pocket in the wake of the old Napster's demise. They are MusicNet, owned by three of the five big record labels; Pressplay, owned by the other two; and a prelaunch trial version of the newly legal Napster. All three are so restrictive, you would think you were downloading homeland-security documents, not 'N Sync. And because the record labels are still squabbling about Internet licensing, nobody has a complete selection except those street-corner kids: morally dubious services like Morpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who'll Pay for the New Napster? | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...Later this year Napster will release a new version of its file-swapping software with built-in copyright protection. If all goes well, Bertelsmann will convert its loan to Napster into a 56% stake in the firm. MusicNet, which bundles the catalogs of BMG, Warner Music and EMI, plans to license music for online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Middlehoff | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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