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Limewire Opens Music Store

By soulxtc

Former P2P file-sharing program outlaw goes legit and offers DRM-free MP3s for between 30 and 99 cents depending on chosen subscription plan. LimeWire has just launched a public Beta of their online music store. Currently only available to customers in the US, the LimeWire Store is reported to have a music catalog of some 500,000 tracks so far, and are all available in a DRM-free 256 Kbps MP3 format. Although the store is currently a standalone web site, the help section of the store's web site states, "In the future, LimeWire will be releasing a version of our file-sharing software optimized for integration with the Music Store. Stay tuned!" But, what's unclear is how exactly LimeWire will be able to integrate the two and be able to convince users to pay for music they could just as easily get for free instead in virtually the same location.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).