Pressplay to Use MP3 in Web Music Service
Pressplay, the online music distributor jointly owned by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, said San Diego-based MP3.com will provide critical pieces of technology needed to deliver songs via the Internet.
Pressplay has been slow to reveal key elements of its service, including the technologies it planned to use to deliver song files, track usage and bill subscribers.
MP3.com--which is being bought by Universal’s parent company, Vivendi Universal, for $372 million--will plug many of those gaps.
A former music industry pariah, MP3.com has paid more than $160 million in damages for infringing music copyrights as it blazed trails in online distribution.
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