Arts, Briefly: Rhapsody Ends Restrictions, Cornering iTunes

The music download service Rhapsody has stepped up competition against Apple’s iTunes by making its catalog of five million songs available without electronic restrictions on playback or duplication and allowing free previews of complete songs. With its announcement on Monday, Rhapsody, a joint venture by RealNetworks and MTV Networks, became the latest digital music service to do away with digital rights management, or D.R.M., which prevents users from making unauthorized copies of songs and can also determine which electronic devices can be used to listen to the songs. Apple has used D.R.M. since it began selling music on iTunes five years ago — and offers song previews at 30 seconds — but the other major download services, Amazon.com, Napster, Wal-Mart and eMusic, all sell music without restrictions. Rhapsody will restrict full-song previews to 25 a month, and the company also announced that users of Verizon’s V Cast service can listen to songs from Rhapsody through their cellphones.

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