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Weblisten Challenges Pressplay and Musicnet
Posted by DMemberKewbase in on March 28, 2002 at 7:33 PM



A few months ago I read an article on WebListen at DMusic. I have tried it and I love his service from the start.

My cd collection has virtually exploded. WebListen is cheap, provides fast downloads (my average downloadspeed is 50K!) and has a wonderful collection.

Weblisten.com is an on line music service, based in Spain. Unlike Pressplay and Musicnet Weblisten is able to offer music by all artists as a result of the licenses granted by authors and artists.

So far they were mainly operating on the European market but WebListen has taken aim at becoming worldwide market leader. And they have a good chance of becoming this, because their service has not got the limitations that make MusicNet and Pressplay unattractive. Most subscriptions offer unlimited downloads and the MP3s and WMAs are not protected. You can burn them to audiocd and play them in all available players.

Their catalog offers more then 125,000 tracks of all major artists and labels.
The cheapest subscription only costs 1 dollar and is called BonoNight. With this you can download as many tracks as you like from 0:00 till 08:00. GMT+1 (night time in Europe but daytime in the US!)

If you are not convinced yet, invest a dollar and try it. http://www.weblisten.com

I cannot believe the RIAA will let them get away with this for too long so you had better hurry.



User Comments

Classicalweaponzero
Date: March 29, 2002 @ 5:47 AM
hahaha they'll be deader then a dead thing
:| (Blank Stare)

oh yea and pirst fost.
Advancedprincess-angry
Date: March 30, 2002 @ 6:05 PM
ohh goody
Advancedmtbatol
Date: March 31, 2002 @ 3:09 PM
125000 tracks?? hmmmm, if and/or when those tracks include some underground rap artists and freestyles that's sometimes hard to find then i'll jump on the bandwagon :D (Big Grin):D (Big Grin):D (Big Grin)
DMemberStpHinkle
Date: April 1, 2002 @ 10:11 PM
This service IS licensed under the Spanish Recording Industry. This means, the tracks ARE legal in Spain!

It is too bad that that services like Napster do not move to spain. They would be able to get good license deals, unlike here in the USA.

If the labels sue them, they do not have grounds to do so. If they can prove that they are licensed in spain, they would have grounds to counter sue the RIAA IN A SPANISH COURT. Then, the RIAA does not have a good chance of enforcing a shutdown order, if Weblisten wins. Given the fact that they are indeed licensed, there is no doubt that Weblisten should not win here!
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