Another "doomed-to-the-dustbin" scheme is to be launched by the recording industry in the UK.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3661348.eceConsumers can look forward to unlimited music downloads as part of their broadband contracts, following confirmation that Warner Music is in talks with the main British internet service providers.
The record label is actively pursuing deals with the ISPs, aiming to establish a new business model in which customers, or ISPs, pay a subscription fee for access to a vast library of songs, rather than buying them on a 'per track' basis
Confirmation of the UK talks comes after it was reported that Warner's chief executive, Edgar Bronfman, had hired a senior music industry consultant to pursue a similar strategy in the US.
The songs, which will play on computers and any music-enabled phone – but not iPods – will be protected by digital rights management (DRM) software, meaning that customers will periodically have to renew access to the tracks using a key provided by TDC. When customers cancel their TDC subscription, they will stop getting new keys and their access to the tracks will expire also if a customer changed their ISP, they would be unlikely to be able to keep any music they had downloaded.
Do they never learn ?
Offering low bit-rate and DRM ridden offerings means we can close our ears on this useless scheme.
