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29
Internet Initiatives in Music
SMEI launched pressplay, a joint venture with Universal Music Group, in December 2001, as the first
subscription service to provide consumers with on-demand access to a broad array of music that can
be streamed, downloaded, and burned onto a CD while protecting artists‘ rights. Subscribers can
build personal collections, duplicate them on a second computer, share play lists and access the
AllMusicGuide and Billboard charts. pressplay is marketed through relationships with MSN,
MP3.com, Roxio and Yahoo! Music, and offers tracks from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, EMI
Recorded Music, and such independent companies as Madacy, Matador, Navarre, OWIE, Razor & Tie,
Roadrunner, Rounder, Sanctuary, TVT Records, and Zomba.
SMEI also established an affiliate relationship with Rioport (which supplies MTV.com, VH1.com,
and Country.com) and licensed its catalogue to Listen.com‘s Rhapsody subscription service and to
Centerspan‘s C-Star CDN Services 2.0. SMEI launched a commercial ringtones Website in the U.S.
with YourMobile, to include Sony Ericsson sites in Europe, and made an equity investment in
eUniverse, Inc., the leading interactive entertainment network.
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