MP3.com to restart its music service, for those willing to pay

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Online music service MP3.com, which finally ended its legal wranglings with the sound recording industry, has introduced MyMP3.com. The new online music service will charge user fees and sell marketing data on its users' musical preferences to pay copyright royalties to the music publishers and record companies that won the copyright-infringement lawsuit against MP3.com. MP3.com will still let users store from one to 25 CDs free, but this free service will now have audio and text advertising.

Services information, Contracts, MP3.com Inc.

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Online upstarts of music join major record labels; Vivendi deal for MP3.com highlights trend

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Vivendi Universal's announcement that it will buy MP3.com illustrates the trend of major record companies acquiring or investing heavily in the online music trading services they were suing for copyright infringement last year. Sony Music and Universal have plans to start Duet, an online music service based on subscriptions, while Bertelsmann has invested in Napster, which is struggling in the wake of court rulings. Industry analysts say that the Internet is becoming one more place where giant mass media firms that own record labels consolidate their influence and control over musicians and consumers.

France, Electric, Gas & Water Utilities, Utilities, ELECTRIC, GAS, AND SANITARY SERVICES, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Energy industries, Energy industry, Public utilities, Online music trading, File sharing, Vivendi S.A., CNET Networks Entertainment. MP3.com

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Free music service is expected to surpass Napster

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In research published by Webnoize, subscribers to a free online-music service called Fast Track based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have surpassed those of Napster Inc., at its peak in Feb. 2001. Fast Track is accessible via three computer programs called Grokster, Kazaa and Morpheus. The sound recording industry, readying its several new online music subscription services, is suing the services offering the three computer programs on charges of abetting copyright infringement.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext, Services development, Market research, Marketing research, Online music

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