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Licensing and pricing hurdles can be overcome, say speakers
By Robert Ashton
NEW LEGAL DOWNLOAD SERVICES from ISPs are expected to launch later this year if the industry and ISPs can hurdle a few "stumbling blocks".
One of the most highly-anticipated panels of last Thursday's Making Online Music Pay conference saw a heavy-hitting bunch of executives tangle on the issue of how ISPs and the industry can work together productively.
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor, who earlier got a commitment from outgoing Culture Secretary Andy Burnham that the Government was still committed to significantly reducing the number of filesharers over the next few years, said that the views expressed in public had become "polarised". But he said behind the scenes there was a willingness to work together and he anticipated new services would be launched this year.
Similarly, PlayLouder CEO Paul Hitchman said, "ISPs are the channels to consumers and what will work is what the consumer wants. What people want is access to music bundled to internet connections. That's what they get now, but not paying for it. But we are ...