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[News] [Rival] Pay Per Listen/Document/Surf Movement Grows up with Deals

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Pay Per Listen/Document/Surf Movement Grows up with Deals
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:29:45 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Universal Music Group, imeem ink deal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_hi_te/universal_music_group_imeem

Making music free (and legal)

,----[ Quote ]
| Imeem allows people to stream, but not download, an unlimited number of songs 
| and videos and makes money by selling advertising. It shares ad revenues with 
| its label partners.  
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/10/technology/imeem/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

How is streaming instead of/with DRM for a fee actually "free"? Silly
journalism. Goodbye to actually owning your music. Same trend with Microsoft
software... (see below)

This will make Free software, free culture and Linux a lot more attractive.


Last week:

Exstream Soft to provide Microsoft applications for rent

,----[ Quote ]
| The company will aim to provide Microsoft applications to domestic users and 
| small and medium businesses on a monthly rental basis. 
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B964332D-CAB4-4491-BB39-673A5E3A4216


Related:

Microsoft expands Office ‘pay-as-you-go’ rental program

,----[ Quote ]
| Via the pay-as-you-go program, users can choose three- or six-month 
| subscriptions to Office Professional 2007 and pay a monthly fee to use the 
| product.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=955


Microsoft patent hints at pay-as-you-go OS

,----[ Quote ]
| A Microsoft patent application from June 2005, published only today,
| titled "System and method for delivery of a modular operating system"
| may signal a fundamental change for what an operating systems stands
| for and how it is sold.
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http://www.istartedsomething.com.nyud.net:8080/20061215/pay-as-you-go-os-patent/


Intel, Microsoft for Pay-As-You-Go PCs

,----[ Quote ]
| The pay-as-you-go model enabled by FlexGo makes PCs more accessible
| by reducing the initial cost and enabling customers to pay for
| computers through subscriptions or as they use them, through the
| purchase of prepaid activation cards or tokens.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060522/20060521005039.html?.v=1


,----[ Quote ]
| Want to write a Word document? Pay a few pennies. Want to download
| some digital photos? Pay a few more.
|
| Under the idea, which Microsoft is introducing this week, people would
| be able to get a PC for their home with a mechanism that charges them
| depending on how much computing they use. Consumers would pay for about
| half of the PC upfront and then, say, 50 cents or 75 cents per hour of
| use. After several hundred hours of paid use, they would then own the
| PC outright.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-6074589.html?part=rss&tag=6074589&subj=news


Microsoft selling hobbled software to poor countries

,----[ Quote ]
| Surprisingly, no-one seems to have told Microsoft that it is not good
| marketing strategy to treat your customers as if they are stupid. Which
| is exactly what the company is doing with the release in Africa of the
| stripped-down operating system it calls Windows XP Starter Edition.
|
| Microsoft South Africa launched Windows XP Starter Edition (XPSE) into
| the African market last week with very little fanfare and market hype.
|
| Which is not surprising considering how the product was received by other
| media on its intial launch in 2004. Known for its straight talking, The
| Register labelled XPSE "crippleware". Analysts Gartner said the product
| had "good intent, poor execution".
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=983

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