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Virgin Digital Shuts Down
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 at 4:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet
Virgin Digital, the online music subscription service from Virgin, is closing shop. The service is shutting down on Friday, September 28, and will shutter its windows for good on Friday, October 19, according to The Register.
Virgin Digital subscribers will still have access to their music, but once their next monthly bill is due, all of the songs will stop working thanks to the digital rights management copy protection built into each track.
 Virgin Digital in the US now goes to Napster. |
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Virgin had been hoping that its online music subscription service would be able to hold its own against Apple’s market dominating iTunes Store. Unlike the Virgin Digital store, however, the iTunes Store lets users purchase and download songs that they can keep without paying additional monthly subscription fees.
In the U.S., Napster is honoring Virgin Digital subscriptions. In the U.K., however, it looks like Virgin doesn’t have an alternative subscription service for its customers to migrate to.
Virgin did not offer any reason for the shutdown but did state on its U.K. site "To all our customers we would like to say thank you and offer our apologies for any inconvenience this might cause."
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