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Can eBay Sell Music For Downloads Like iTunes?

Published on July 18, 2004 By joetheblow In Business

Source: Netscape News

eBay Flirts With Digital Music Downloads
By RACHEL KONRAD

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Online auction giant eBay Inc. will allow some customers to buy and sell digital music files as part of a pilot program that could piggyback on the success of Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes service.

San Jose, Calif.-based eBay said an unspecified number of ``preapproved'' users could conduct digital music transactions in eBay's new ``Digital Downloads'' category for the next 180 days. Executives will then determine whether to formally enter the market.

``We don't want to blow this out of proportion - this is a pilot program to see if there's even any demand,'' said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy. ``Much of what happens on eBay happens because the community takes us there, and this is essentially giving the community a way to see if we should create this new venue.''

The experiment, announced this week in a posting on eBay's Web site, reverses a longstanding policy at the world's largest auction company....

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