Sky and Omnifone talking legal downloads

OMNIFONE HAS CONFIRMED THAT it is in talks with British satellite broadcasting giant Sky over the possibilty of supplying unlimited music downloads to its UK and Irish customers.

Despite being badgered by the INQ to reveal futher details, including whether any other potential partners were in the frame, Omnifone spokesman Tim Hadley remained tight-lipped, only willing to confirm that discussions were taking part.

If the talks run to plan, it is likely that Sky will offer a rebranded version of Omnifone's Musicstation service which currently gives broadband users, "legitimate unlimited access to the world's music on their Mac, PC and set-top box."

The service is capable of streaming music and serving 'owned forever' content which can be trasferred to all flavours of music player including Ipods, which strongly suggests that downloaded files will be unfettered by DRM copy protection nonsense.

All of the top four record companies are reported to be onboard with the Musicstation project, bringing the recording industry one step closer to the new business model which everyone with half a brain has been suggesting for many years, and which the likes of the sub-Neanderthal MAFIAA have vigorously ignored.