Nokia will bundle an all-you-can-eat music buffet with phones in a service called “Comes with Music”.
This flat-fee music service with phone purchase lets buyers download as many tracks as they like for a year, choosing from 2.1 million songs from Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner. If users want more tracks after year-end, they have to pay.
DRM battles may fall off quickly now as the music industry cuts the deals with the mobile phone industry, the same deals they petulantly refused the PC industry for more than a decade. If it works, the music CD is dead and iTunes could suffer.
