Petteri Pyyny
7 Mar 2003 14:57
Former British monopoly, British Telecom, has launched its own legal music service together with artist Peter Gabriel's OD2 company. The new service, called Dotmusic.com, lists over 150,000 legal tracks in its catalog, but the service's main goal is to secure BT's position in country's emerging broadband markets.
BT's advertising claims of "unlimited music downloads" have already caused a British rival, Wippit, to complain to standards officers. In reality, the downloaded music can't be transferred to other computers and not even to portable audio devices. And when user ends his/her subscription, the downloaded tracks become unusable.
Service costs £10 a month (appx $17 or €16) and includes music from most of the major record labels -- except from Sony.
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