Nokia comes with free music from Universal (See all news)

During the Nokia World event, held in Amsterdam, the Finnish manufacturer announced a revolutionary program that enables people to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to millions of music tracks from Universal Group. Another advantage is that when the year expires, you can keep the music files.

Nokia spokesman, Damian Stathonikos mentioned that the contract signed with Universal Music Group International, owned by French media giant Vivendi will start in the second half of 2008.

This is for sure, a unique service and has no competition as the financial barrier to try new music is completely removed, fundamentally changing a lot of business logic in the music industry.

We must say we’ve heard rumors that Nokia will pay Universal Music five dollars each month for every handset sold by them with this kind of service. Anyway the good news is that consumers can keep all the music files they have downloaded for free during the 1 year subscription.

Unfortunately it seems that all the songs will be DRM protected, so we can forget about playing these tracks on other music players beside a Nokia phone.