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New music service plans to download direct to your iPod
Dean Mortlock
0 comments 05 June 2007
Lala.com is a music download site with big plans, as they’re planning to offer a service that downloads songs directly from their site to your iPod.
With a library of around 200,00 songs from the Warner Music Group, Lala.com sell the tracks for 99 cents a piece, with the added ability to stream the entire library for free – Lala.com will pay royalties of 1 cent for every time someone listens to a song.
"This is a turning point for music companies and the entire industry," said co-founder Bill Nguyen. "I have no idea if it will work — this is a bet."
Additional revenue from the site comes from users that either buy new CDs or swap used ones with other users – for a fee of $1 (around 50p). The site already has around 300,000 members.
Interestingly, Lala.com gets around the issue of DRM, as the songs aren’t actually stored on your computer, making it difficult for pirates to offer them to file-sharing networks. But it is possible, with additional software, to transfer songs from an iPod to a computer.
"You're always going to have a population that hacks the iPod to get something for free," said Lala.com’s John Kuch. "But the majority aren't going to go out and find third-party software and pull it off the iPod and put it on a P2P network."
To find out more about Lala.com, go here.
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