Google Entering the Music Industry

In an attempt to penetrate the MP3 music sales industry, Universal joined with Google to form their gBox, a DRM free music service. The newly formed relationship will promote Universal’s music via Google’s SERPS and link to a Google Checkout page which will allow users to buy both a DRM-free and with-DRM tracks in MP3 format.
Universal had recently left iTunes and formed alliances to market their music all DRM-free through the online stores of Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Rhapsody, and Google. Songs will be sold for 99c (30c less than iTunes’ DRM-free songs), will only be able to download onto …read more