Passionato launches in UK for Classical Music

DRM-free Passionato tries to do for Classical what others do for Pop. The site only has 18,000 titles with a handful of mainstream labels. It is in direct competition with DG Web Shop. The Classical field had a reputation (30 years ago) of doing the R&D for the entire music field. It's sort of sad to see this website touted as potential break-through.
Bad news too -- it is available for the UK -- only.
If you want to see a leader in the classical music field, I would recommend the American Music Center's streaming audio internet station: counterstreamradio.org. It's much smaller, narrower in its focus, but edgier and (thus) better.

http://www.last100.com/2008/09/11/attention-classical-music-fans-passionato-is-open-for-business-but-only-in-the-uk/