Verizon Wireless’ V CAST music-download service prevents users from downloading and purchasing MP3 files on their mobile phones, but it does not preclude them from transferring PC-stored MP3 files to V CAST-supported devices, a spokesperson for the wireless company says.

Published reports have been critical of Verizon for its choice of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player 10 software, which has proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology, as the platform for the new service. Because Windows Media Player 10 supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files, not MP3s, it’s true that users can only purchase WMA files through the service on the phone, says Jeffrey Nelson, Verizon’s spokesperson.

Via: PC World