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"The BBC reports that Warner Music Group has said that it isn't planning to offer songs to free music-streaming services like Last.fm or Spotify moving forward.\nWarner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. said, \"Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry\" and the model \"is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future.\"\nWarner's shift could be a big blow to some music-streaming services. Warner's catalog includes artists REM, Death Cab for Cutie, Fall Out Boy, Sean \"Diddy\" Combs, Aretha Franklin, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, The Grateful Dead, Jay-Z, The Doobie Brothers, Freezepop, Garbage, Jimi Hendrix, Jet, Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, Metallica, Morrissey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Sinatra and numerous others.\nBack in 2007, a DRM-free music e-tailer called AnywhereCD closed its doors mostly because it lost Warner Music Group content and couldn't entice its users to keep coming back for more without those important artists.\nThe timing is poor for streaming site Spotify if its deal with Warner is not renewed. The U.S. launch of European site is probably on the horizon, but without these artists the service could look less attractive to new American users. And the whole situation is a bit confusing; we recently saw reports that Spotify is paying out well to record labels."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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