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March 18, 2004
Legal music downloads in Germany
Gerhard Schroeder opened the legal music download platform Phonoline at CeBIT. Phonoline doesn't offer the downloads directly but uses outlets such as Eventtim-Music. Single tracks start off at 0.99€. The main format seems to be WMA and every piece of music comes with a license that allow you to export the tune a certain number of times.
While the online-experience seems well thought-out (caveat: I haven't signed-up) - the prices for single tunes still strike me as being too high (in fact I noticed track prices varying between 0.99€ and 1.49€ between the Phonoline outlets). Remember the Apple store charges 0.99$ (which works out at around 0.81€) - so prices here are somewhat higher. I wonder what will happen when Apple brings the iTunes store to Europe?
Posted by Matthew at March 18, 2004 02:08 PM