Virgin signs 'unlimited mp3 download' with Universal records for BB customers

With a service like this, they could just offer it in a choice of formats, and let the end user pick what they want. The more options for the user the better!
 
Not much use if you're a fan of Black Metal and Industrial is it? Looks like they're just catering for the crappy chart music brigade.
 
Brilliant news. Another reason to go from Sky to virgin.

Been waiting for zune to come to the UK as they offer the same. But this will do.
 
I must be the only one who sees the negative side of this.

Firstly they're going to be monitoring what you're doing a lot more closely. Which is fine if you don't mind the intrusive side of the web. They'll be recording websites you go to, files uploaded, downloaded, etc.

The second one is the warning for uploading the songs to others. Yet it's going to be perfectly okay to put them on your MP3 player and go to your mates. Or encrypt the files and upload them.

Certainly not for me and having to be a Virgin customer is seriously going to limit there market - so it wouldn't suprise me if it came out for other people.



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Poeple are all saying how great this is and yet there are no details on how much it will cost and the range of choice. Me? I've been a Virgin Media customer too long, it'll be a ripoff, crap service with crap customer support ;)
 
Would be interesting to see the quality of the MP3's, what tag information they'll contain about the downloaders and what happens to the music we download if the service stops.
 
Would be interesting to see the quality of the MP3's, what tag information they'll contain about the downloaders and what happens to the music we download if the service stops.

Did you not read the article? :confused:

You can still listen to music downloaded if you cancel the service.
 
Not much use if you're a fan of Black Metal and Industrial is it? Looks like they're just catering for the crappy chart music brigade.
This will always be the way.

I would glady pay £100/year, if not more, for an ulimited/untethered access to a classical music library, but such a thing doesn't exist.

The sad thing is that if the record labels hadn't been so short sighted and scared of the internet, this kind of service would have been up and running years ago, and piracy such a smaller problem.
 
Did you not read the article? :confused:

You can still listen to music downloaded if you cancel the service.

Other than cancelling the service, I was also wondering if there was any kind of "dial-home" feature that they'd use for the files since other services still had this even for "DRM-free" MP3s.
 
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