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  • Online music: Which services are worth paying for?

    RealNetworks and others are hoping you'll pony up for access to "exclusive" online content. But if the available for-pay offerings--including Real's SuperPass Gold--are any indication, you've got to be careful what you sign up for.

  • Anti-piracy feud bodes ill for Web music

    Pressplay and MusicNet subscription services will make songs legally available online, but people using iPod, iPaq and other new devices still won't be able to listen to them.

  • Music on the Net: Consumers pay

    An agreement between Microsoft and online music service Pressplay intensifies the war brewing between Internet and music giants, raising concerns that consumers will become the real casualties.

  • Online music services--anti-competitive?

    Record industry execs and critics trade jabs at an industry conference, with a legislator saying that Pressplay and MusicNet may amount to a 'duopoly.

  • End of the music CD?

    InterTrust Technologies, a maker of digital rights management software, has partnered with start-up DataPlay to provide secure digital media in a move to thwart music piracy by replacing the compact disc.

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