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In an email message to customers, MSN’s general manager for entertainment and video services Rob Bennett informed customers that Microsoft will cease supporting retrieval of license keys for songs purchased via MSN Music as of August 31, 2008. Users can authorize new computers to play music purchased through MSN Music up until that date—but after that, users will not be able to transfer the music.
Microsoft’s MSN Video has inked an exclusive, multiyear deal to offer liveand on-demand streaming of live concerts from Control Room, the company behind the live Webcast of last year’s Live 8 concert events. Under the agreement, MSN will exclusively Webcast 36different live concert events, which will also be available for on-demand viewing for a fixed period of time after the event. The shows will be available on MSN’s 42 worldwide sites, and kick offOctober 2 with John Legend at London’s Royal Albert Hall, followed shortly by a New York City concert by John Mayer.
(We’re assuming the concert offerings will not exclusively be tied to performers named “John.”)
Redmond software giant Microsoft today announced an invitation-only beta of a new user-generated video site called Soapbox on its existing MSN Video service.
"Soapbox delivers on a critical component of the MSN growth strategy of deepening audience engagement by enabling people to participate in the content experience," said Rob Bennett, MSN’s general manager of Entertainment and Video Services in a release. "By adding a user-uploaded video service, we are rounding out our existing investments in commercially produced and original content on MSN Video."
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