Virgin puts 'legal P2P' plans on ice [Archive]

joglynne

23-01-2009, 18:25

The Register released their exclusive this afternoon.
Big label pressure has forced British cable ISP Virgin Media to suspend plans to introduce a legal music sharing service for its subscribers, just weeks ahead of its launch, The Register has learned.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/23/virgin_puts_legal_p2p_on_ice/

If I have posted this in the wrong section could a passing Mod relocate the post for me. Thanks.

Ignitionnet

23-01-2009, 18:27

Thanks for this Jo.

Pretty funny that they were planning on doing this considering the massive differences between upstream and downstream speeds. Download speeds people might have seen would have soon made people subscribe to iTunes :)

v0id

23-01-2009, 19:40

Thanks for this Jo.

Pretty funny that they were planning on doing this considering the massive differences between upstream and downstream speeds. Download speeds people might have seen would have soon made people subscribe to iTunes :)

or you know, a service like spotify perhaps?

Mick Fisher

24-01-2009, 02:23

VM, the latest victim to get 'burned' by the greed of the music industry.

Oh dear, never mind.

As has been previously mentioned, with VM's pathetic upload speeds, IMO, the service was doomed anyway.

sparky621

24-01-2009, 09:35

But Virgin IS in the music industry! All be it a different branch. Why can't the labels wake up to the fact that most people now have MP3 players and don't need to be buying CDs and certainly don't want to pay CD prices for downloads.

Hugh

24-01-2009, 11:40

But Virgin IS in the music industry! All be it a different branch. Why can't the labels wake up to the fact that most people now have MP3 players and don't need to be buying CDs and certainly don't want to pay CD prices for downloads.

I believe that may be a sub-optimal interpretation of the available information, as according to the Virgin Group website (http://www.virgin.com/home.aspx), there appear to be no record producing companies in it.

Pog66

26-01-2009, 10:01

But Virgin IS in the music industry! All be it a different branch. Why can't the labels wake up to the fact that most people now have MP3 players and don't need to be buying CDs and certainly don't want to pay CD prices for downloads.

Not anymore - Virgin records was sold to EMI a few years back & the music retail wing was bought out by management to become the doomed Zavvi

sherer

26-01-2009, 12:31

what is annoying about this is that the recording and film industry still don't seem to understand people now want their media in different formats.

VM were trying to create a legal bit of software where we could pay and then download stuff, surely part of that payment would have then go to the record \ film companies and they would have made money.

Instead some exec with no idea about IT has heard the term P2P and download and got the lawyers in