{"id":17,"date":"2006-05-17T07:56:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/05\/17\/mtvs-urge-faces-significant-challeng"},"modified":"2006-06-03T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T11:32:21","slug":"mtvs-urge-faces-significant-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/05\/17\/mtvs-urge-faces-significant-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV&#8217;s Urge faces significant challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTV and Microsoft&#8217;s annoucement today on its new music service, Urge, provides an interesting competitor to those in the music world, specifically Apple&#8217;s iTunes and other Internet services such as Napster and Real Network&#8217;s Rhapsody.\u00a0 The service will allow users to download songs from its 2 million song catalog, similar to how iTunes operates, at 99 cents per song.\u00a0 A difference with Urge is a two-part subscription service that allows users to listen to any of their 2 million songs as well as some download\/copy capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The big issue for Urge is distribution to actual music devices.\u00a0 Since the service is not compatiable with iPod or Mac products, it is certainly starting at a key disadvantage.\u00a0 Even with two big branded players in MTV and Microsoft, it&#8217;s unlikely that they will make a big dent in the market, unless they overcome this compatiability issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV and Microsoft&#8217;s annoucement today on its new music service, Urge, provides an interesting competitor to those in the music world, specifically Apple&#8217;s iTunes and other Internet services such as Napster and Real Network&#8217;s Rhapsody.\u00a0 The service will allow users to download songs from its 2 million song catalog, similar to how iTunes operates, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}