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> Somebody just told me that clients of several Dutch online music stores > (Planet Internet, Tiscali, MSN, Wanadoo and MTV as well) got a letter > roughly saying the following (translated from Dutch): >
> > Dear Mr. X, >
> > An increasing amount of people choose to legally download music from the > internet. Record companies allow more and more music to be licensed this > way. This is why you, using Music Stream, have access to over 1 million > songs right now. >
> > To suit your needs as a customer as well as possible, Planet Internet has > tried to offer you the music in different ways. Sadly, record companies
> have decided to no longer permit some of those ways of licensing. >
> > What does this mean? > Record companies no longer support your type of license. This means that > the music you already downloaded through this option possibly will no > longer play. We succeed in allowing you to play the music until January
> 1st 2007. >
> > We understand that it is inconvenient for you when you can no longer play > downloaded songs. That's why we give you 1000 credits (worth: 10 euro)
> that you can spend in April of this year. >
> (Source: ADSL Forum
> I'm not sure how the licensing structure has changed, but it is scary. You > think you bought a song, but if a record companies changes its mind they
> can stop you from playing it. It's like the record company knocking on
your
> door demanding all your CDs back because they don't want you to have them
after > all, even though you already paid for them. >
> Update: The license withdrawn are licenses that allow the user to play the > music on the computer only (so no burning on CDs or putting on an MP3 > player). >
> It turns out that these Dutch providers of legal DRM protected music all
> use OD2
this on > their site. Does anybody have any information on this? Has this happened
> in other countries as well? >
> This is not great promotion for DRM music. It seems safer to just download > music illegally somewhere.
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