Verizon, Rhapsody Sign Music Download Deal

By Raoul Railey
23:05, July 1st 2008
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Verizon, Rhapsody Sign Music Download Deal

Verizon has launched a service that allows the company’s subscribers to download as much music as they want for $15 dollars per month. Music will be available for download on PCs as well as mobile phones.

Verizon has said that it is able to offer only seven phone models that support the service so far, and that the upcoming LG Chocolate 3 will offer users the best experience, but the company plans to bring more devices in the near future.

A person that has access to the service will be able to choose three locations from which to download the music he wants. These locations are represented either by a PC, a mobile phone, or a laptop. There aren’t any restrictions on the combination of the type of devices a person decides to make downloads on. This will offer users the possibility of enjoying more freedom as to how they access their accounts.

The deal made by the two companies looks like an attempt to attack iTunes’s supremacy in the music download market. Rhapsody has already made the music it offers available without any DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions. This means that tracks that are downloaded from Rhapsody don’t have any mechanisms that prevent them from being duplicated or played only on certain devices.

Apple still continues to use DRM even now, after five years since iTunes first came on the market. However, Apple’s service continues to hold a 70 percent market share, even now when most music download sites provide tracks with no copyright protection.



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