Nippon Broadcasting System Inc and Recruit group companies will start distributing music over the Internet on October 26, giving their site the yearningly wannabe name of the Digital Woodstock site. It will enable customers to download CD-quality music for about a dollar a song. The service will start with some 100 songs recorded by independent artists, increasing to 500 within a year. The service will use encryption technology to make sure only those that pay can listen. Customers will need to register and give a credit card number to download player software from the site – but it will take around 10 minutes to download an average-length song with a 28.8Kbps modem.
