Los Angeles - Universal Music Group is experimenting with a service called TotalMusic, where customers of Internet service providers or mobile carriers would pay a blanket monthly fee for the rights to freely trade unlimited music downloads on the network, Digital Music News reported.

The service would reportedly force all existing ISP subscribers to opt-in to the service, likely an obstacle to such an offering.

Wired also pointed out that an organization like SoundExchange would have to administer royalties for the service, otherwise deals would have to be negotiated between participating ISPs and all labels and artists involved.

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