MARKETER of popular beat combos Sony BMG has secretly building a online music subscription service.

In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a rag which totally fails to mention sausages, the CEO of Sony BMG chief executive Rolf Schmidt-Holtz said his outfit is developing an online music subscription service that would give users unlimited access to its music and be compatible with a host of digital music players.

This is a total reversal of Sony's previously cautious approach to online music.

Although he did not say when the service would start, Schmidt-Holtz said that there would be a flat fee of six to eight Euros for unlimited access to Sony BMG's entire music catalogue.

He even added that if customers were really, really good, they would be allowed to keep some songs for ever.

Schmidt-Holtz said that Sony was in talks with other major music distributors to peddle the music. He didn’t say whom. µ

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