Comments on: In France, Music Will Be Free http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Radar http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178439 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:10:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178439 Living in France does have its advantages.

]]> By: Colortone Media Blog » Free music for French people! http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178438 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:21:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178438 [...] couple of major broadband providers there intend to offer unlimited downloads either for free or for a small monthly fee (~$6), beginning in [...]

]]> By: IndieHQ 2.0 » Gotta Love The French http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178437 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:08:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178437 [...] get full access to a content repository of mp3’s. According to a recent article at GigaOM,  Cable Companies in France are doing exactly that. “Yesterday, neuf Cegetel, a competitive broadband service provider, said it will offer [...]

]]> By: Dewayne-Net Technology Weblog » Blog Archive » In France - download of music will be free - how the Internet is changing the music industry http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178436 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:35:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178436 [...] http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/ [...]

]]> By: Benoît FELTEN http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178435 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:37:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178435 A few factual comments: the available catalog in Neuf’s offer is a (small) subset of Universal’s catalog, and the “free” offer only gives access to a genre determined subset of said subset. In order to access the 150k titles, you need to pay 4.99 a month. It’s a loss leader rather than a commodity.

As for Free’s response, it sounds to me like no response at all: deezer.com is available to all, and the press release quoted above describes no service that would be specific to Free users (the capacity to design and save playlists seems to be available by default on Deezer.com) Sounds more like a response because they have to say something.

Finally, it’s not surprising that FT/Orange would be working on something similar, but there’s a big gap between “we intend to” and an actual product. Wait and see, I guess.

Overall, it’ll be interesting to see where this goes, especially considering that Universal seems pretty unhappy with the iTunes near monopoly…

]]> By: David Mackey http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178434 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:12:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178434 Its interesting, b/c everything can’t become a commodity. When will commodization stop?

]]> By: Thomas Gee (Canard WiFi) http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178433 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:28:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178433 Free (Iliad) has also decided today to give free music to it’s subscribers via Deezer

http://www.iliad.fr/presse/2007/CP_230807.pdf

]]> By: La música será gratuita en Francia | El blog de Jesús Amieiro http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178432 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:43:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178432 [...] GigaOM, [...]

]]> By: croote http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178431 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:00:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178431 And “Free”, a french broadband service provider, have annouced a partnership with Deezer.com to offer a very large number of songs.

]]> By: miaousse http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178430 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:50:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178430 hi
the point is that unless you keep neuf-cegetel as provider you will be able to grab music (not compatible with ipod), the mp3 has a microsoft DRM.

]]> By: yokozuna http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178429 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:49:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/22/in-france-music-will-be-free/#comment-178429 Vive la France!

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