After months of negotiations, Apple announced that they had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to keep selling their songs via the online music store iTMS for 99 cents/track.
This is a real victory for Apple, especially with Napster trying to gain market share by proposing some "free downloads".
But there is a slight change, not mentioned by most of Mac-dedicated websites:
iTMS users will be granted to listen all songs in streaming mode, with a single limitation being: can not listen more than 5 times the same track. This new system will be available thanks to ... Ads on iTMS. This system to be implemented in iTMS was strongly supported by Majors, probably a way for them to get control back over their own music catalogs and get stronger to negotiate in the future with Apple...
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