Word: pressplay
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...also intends to license its repertoire to Pressplay, a rival distributor set up by Sony and Vivendi Universal. That could signal a change for the industry: until now, players haven't agreed on digital distribution issues. Maybe EMI will push them toward a consensus - consumers would appreciate...
...enabling technology is called digital rights management (DRM), which codes the rules of use favored by the record publishers and forces users to adhere to those rules if they wish to listen to the music files. The record labels are now setting up competing download sites—Pressplay and Musicnet—which will each have some implementation of DRM technology, even if they may be nothing more than simple subscription services at launch...