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Led Zeppelin is no longer "dazed and confused" by the MP3 world. It's capitalizing on a monumental one-night-only reunion by, at long last embracing song downloads — but through Verizon Wireless, not Apple's iTunes. Take it as another sign of the rising unease with Apple's dominance of digital music. The cell-phone carrier will sell full song downloads and ringtones of popular hits. The entire Zeppelin catalog and other partnerships will follow. [NYT]
7:44 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Tim Faulkner
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Not to get all nit-pickey and such, but the deal offers Verizon Wireless an exclusive *rollout*. The NYT article says iTunes and other services will get the goods on 13 November, so it's only a 30-day exclusive for Verizon. Verizon has secured other "exclusive windows" like this in the past, and surely they would have to pay way too much to lock up the catalog "indefinitely".
@DHMBIB: Noted, but who ever said it was "indefinite"? I think you read that in.
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