Sony Connect to Offer Clay Mini-Concert Download

Sony Connect and ABC announced on Saturday that all 22 "Jimmy Kimmel Live Fall 2006 mini-concerts" will be offered for download on Sony's Connect Music Store. Sony will offer downloads of all performances including exclusive performances that are not broadcast on TV. Downloads are priced at 99 cents per song, available for in Sony's proprietary ATRAC3 format.

Here's a report from WTNH:

"Jimmy Kimmel Live" is slated to present at least 22 high-profile music performances throughout the remainder of the year on the Walkman® Stage - a new outdoor venue in Hollywood. Additionally, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and Sony's Connect™ music store (accessible via www.connect.com) will offer "Kimmel Downloads" - live recordings from the show's music performances, including many of the Walkman Stage concerts.

Clay will be one of the first acts to perform on this fall's concert series; he's scheduled to appear on the September 26 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Due to legal issues, the Sony Connect store is only available in the USA.

Update 8/21: We received an update from the CB's evancol... very interesting. PLEASE READ:

The Sony/Kimmel deal, which is wrong on here too, apparently someone googled it or did who knows. Is from an article that ran in August 2004. It is NOT NEW....Has been in place TWO YEARS. When I read your newsletter and saw the "Clay will be one of the first" I knew something was wrong....they have concerts dating back to 2004 already at Sony.

I went yesterday to check on downloading etc. This morning I started sniffing around and found the original article.

I posted the info on the Kimmel thread here.

And, don't know if you know this....but in case you wanted to...

ATRAC (think that's the name), uses the DRM encryption technology....this is the same killer one Walmart uses. This means the download belongs to the COMPUTER that it is downloaded to. And is recognizes it...

Will NOT convert to MP3, or anything else for that matter. You cannot download to a disc and then upload to another computer. You can only transfer to a portable device that is equipped for DRM technology (mostly Sony).

You cannot transfer computer to computer because it recognizes ISP. It will tell you that it does not hold the license and will not let you open.

It limits the number of times you can burn a CD to 5 and it then locks the encryption and you cannot burn more.

If it catches an attempt to manipulate the encryption, it will revoke the license and make it unusable at all.

The CDs you burn cannot be put on another computer because they will recognize the ISP from the first one...only used on a CD player or a DRM equipped personal player.

AND....THE BIGGIE.... you cannot download the digital stuff from Sony and put it in file share or anything else to send to out of country people. When it is downloaded, even if you don't ever play it, it has the ISP of the computer it is downloaded on...it will NOT play on the other end when it is opened from a file share program. Will tell you it is not licensed.

I spent about 2 hours yesterday playing with this to verify that it was still the same.

It is this was with any of the digital companies that use DRM technology. I know Walmart does, and Sony. Not sure about who else.

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