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...With this service, you don't have to purchase individual tracks before transferring them to your portal music player. Rather, you pay a flat subscription fee-$7 a month or $60 a year-for unlimited downloads. (Of course, if you close your account, the files will no longer play.) Napster To Go and RealNetworks' Rhapsody To Go both work the same way, and like Yahoo's service, cater to the same crowd-namely, consumers who own an MP3 player made by a company other than Apple (like Dell, iRiver, Creative, etc.). You'll need to check the list of compatible...
...cannot wipe out piracy. But you can minimize its bottom-line impact. Just as music companies, rightly or wrongly, made peace with MP3 file-sharing services like Napster, so must manufacturers from the U.S. heartland learn strategies for coping?by developing new revenue models that emphasize service offerings around intellectual property. Such models may include lowered pricing for a developing market; universal licensing schemes to sell music, films, games and software on a subscription basis; or emphasizing revenues that flow from service and support rather than product, a model that has been successfully exploited by the Linux community...
...Billy Idol is back on the scene? Credit the booming music nostalgia market, which has stirred up enough interest in the '80s to entice Morrissey, New Order, Duran Duran, Mötley Crüe and others back into recording studios. But while those acts made their previous albums within the Napster era and had modest expectations for their comebacks, Idol, 49, has been inactive since 1993's disastrous Cyberpunk and believes that his new collection, Devil's Playground, out March 22, may restore his former glory. "I'm not a retro act," Idol says in his parched English growl. "All these...
...Music fans looking for Christian inspiration now have a sacred space on the Internet to download songs. Howard Rachinski, creator of the Church Copyright License program, which allows houses of worship to copy music and distribute it to their congregations, will launch Songtouch.com next month. Billed as a "Christian Napster," the service will debut with 15,000 inspirational songs, from gospel to rap, making it the most comprehensive website of its kind. Songs cost 99˘ each, although a subscription will get you unlimited monthly downloads. Rachinski, whose company gets up to 10% of the proceeds, says Songtouch is the reason...
...Napster age, when many foresee the death of the album as an artist’s cohesive statement, soundtracks have returned as albums in their own right, mix-tapes evocative of the particular feel and mood of a film. It’s a return to the association of a song with a moment—much like the bloom in the late ’80s, when Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” achieved fame as the Breakfast Club crew finally departed detention...