HP announces they will launch an online music store

December 3, 2003

aviationwiz and GristyMcFisty both used our news submit to tell us that HP is going to launch their own online music store. It will probably be starting in January 2004.

Hewlett-Packard Co., one of several computer companies pushing into the consumer electronics market, plans to launch an HP-branded online music store in the first quarter, most likely at a January trade show, an HP executive said on Tuesday.

The music service will be run in conjunction with an existing service like Musicmatch.com and compete with music stores from Apple Computer Inc. and Dell Inc., HPShopping.com chief executive officer Peter Appl said in an interview.

It seems that slowly companies are seeing that they will have to install their own music services, if they want to prevent stealing music with P2P software like Kazaa or Edonkey.

Now everyone
wants to get a part of this cake. Let's see if so many
companies can co- exist, or if we will get a big monopolistic
player once again. Maybe you are interested in discussing this topic in
our Music Downloads, P2P & Legal Issues Forum.

Source: Yahoo.com