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"Will music subscription services work?".

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Daniel Cross, www.record-play.net

"No, for four reasons.1) People like to own their own music. 2) More and more majors are providing their music DRM-free, allowing more flexibility in transfer and use. 3) The increase in advertising supported models will start to have more presence, allowing lower cost and even free music ownership. 4) The Radiohead sales model is beginning to change attitude to music sales from the top down."

Russel Coultart, Digital Stores

"In theory, of course they should. Millions of us are happy to subscribe to Sky, paying a monthly fee to watch programs we don't even get to keep. However, music subscriptions almost certainly won't work under the current business models because consumption of music is different from TV programmes. We play tracks we like over and over again and ownership of the track makes this possible, whereas subscription does not, because you lose the track once you stop the subscription."

Simon Wheeler, Beggars Group

"Most people feel ...

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