I am in a minority: I like to walk into a music shop, look at the CDs on offer, make my choice and go and pay. I am in the minority and that is bad news for the businesses that my choices fund.

Fortunately these businesses are starting to realize that their business model stinks and that the profits to be made on selling physical CDs are dwindling rapidly. If, a few months ago you’d mentioned the following names in the same sentence as ‘unlimited music downloads’ then I would have laughed. Here I go: the latest entrants into the world of music downloads include Sony BMG, 24-7 Entertainment, Nokia, Vodafone and O2. Did I mention Sony? That wasn’t an error.

Sony has made two major moves recently to allow many people to have music downloads: we7 have famously procured the back catalogue for free streaming from its site and Nokia have acquired similar rights to offer unlimited music downloads for 1 year to its new customers.

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