Buy.com music service suffers licensing drawbacks
July 22, 2003 - 00:41 PDT   Buy.com today will launch BuyMusic, a new online music service aimed at the PC market with the cheapest per-song rates yet -- but with "many of the same restrictions on copying that have stymied wider use of other music services," reports AP.

Users of the service will not have the "freedom afforded customers of Apple's iTunes service to transfer the music purchased to multiple computers and portable devices, or to burn it to compact discs" due to the fact that Buy.com founder Scott Blum was unable to obtain uniform licensing rights from the record labels and artists. Blum stated that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is "a visionary, but he's on the wrong platform." BuyMusic is charging $7.95 for a full album and 70 cents for individual song downloads -- 29 cents lower than Apple. The service's downloads are in Microsoft's Windows Media format.  [ Email this story ]

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