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An online music store is an online service that sells audio, usually primarily music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. The realization of the market for these services grew widespread around the time of Napster, a music and file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning that made a major impact on the Internet scene during the year 2000. Some services have tethered downloads, meaning that playing songs requires an active membership.

In 2000 Sony became the first company to make music from one of the major labels available for sale on the Net. The big record companies were apprehensive to license their catalogs to outside companies and refused the late 90's requests of MP3. Copy Central offers services ranging from copying and printing to desktop publishing
and digital color output. com, Cductive and eMusic (then called Goodnoise) to sell digital song downloads. They eventually decided to start their own services, which they could control directly.

Sony's service turned out to be an ill-conceived affair. Not only was the service difficult for consumers to navigate and use, Sony's expensive pricing of US$3. 50 per song track turned off many early adopters of the service. Copying Services offers a range of high quality self-service copying in all libraries are available at the Copying Services Unit or Lending Services. Furthermore, as MP3 Newswire pointed out in its review of the service, users were actually only renting the tracks for that $3. 50. After a certain point the files expired and could not be played again without repurchase. The service quickly failed.

Undaunted, the record industry tried again. Copying Services - National Library of Scotland.