Amazon May Limit Streaming On Some Tracks

Amazon's streaming music service, which the company has been talking to record labels about for about a year, could come with listening limits when it launches, according to The Verge.

According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon plans to intentionally limit how people stream certain tracks in order to push them towards making purchases in its MP3 store.

Just what those limits are is currently unknown, but they'd represent a markedly different approach than rival paid subscription services, which offer users unlimited listening without advertisements in exchange for a monthly fee.

It would also differ from free, ad-supported streaming services like Pandora, that typically limit how many times users can skip over songs each hour.