September 25, 2008
MySpace Music: Launching a Free-Music Revolution
Social-networking giant MySpace is unveiling its new music service today. TIME magazine reports.
MySpace Music is free, and users get instant access to a vast library of songs. The site has inked deals to upload the catalogs of the four major labels, EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. Throw in songs from the 5 million artists who already have pages on the site, and MySpace has a pretty good starter set.
... Sony Ericsson and its rival, Nokia, are launching services overseas this year (and later in the U.S.) that would give cellphone users access to the same vast music library, for free. The tunes would be linked to the cellular handsets, but even if you dropped your mobile carrier, you could keep the songs you downloaded."
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