Thursday, July 10, 2003
: The C|net story about RIAA suing Puretunes answers one question I have, which was "How does WebListen get away with selling major label non-DRM MP3s?" The answer to that is that "Puretunes took after an earlier Spanish company, Weblisten.com, which allowed subscribers to download unlimited amounts of music over a specified time frame. WebListen.com, which also launched without securing rights directly from labels, has been sued multiple times. "
Even though WebListen has been sued, they continue to operate, recently improving their files to 192kpbs. They have a heck of a deal if you want to buy digital music online. If their site didn't read like a bad translation, I wonder how successful they could be. It's a bit scary that they aren't more successful in that maybe the demand really isnt there at all. Perhaps people buying from the Apple iTunes Music Store are buying the Apple brand more then they are buying music.
