Yahoo ends music downloads
22 December 2003
Yahoo, the US internet group, will no longer offer online music downloads to subscribers of the popular UK website Dotmusic.
The company, which bought Dotmusic from BT in October, announced that it would not renew a contract with technology firm OD2 to provide unlimited pay-per-tune downloads to subscribers.
Instead, features of Dotmusic are to be integrated with Yahoo's global Launch music service, which offers free music videos and pre-programmed digital radio stations to users.
Yahoo added that it would not consider re-entering the competitive music download market until it found a global solution.
'We are looking for a globally consistent offer that will work across all our websites,' a Yahoo spokesperson said last week. 'There is nothing in the pipeline, although of course we are always talking to people.'
Industry experts have predicted that the first half of 2004 will see a wave of music download launches from websites such as Amazon and Roxio's rebranded Napster.
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