Talking about downloading music for listening to it offline, you could only store the music in the app, which means you couldn't simply pull it out of your app, shove it all into a USB drive, copy it on to your laptop or desktop or maybe on to your friend's tablet. Among many such facilities, some of the famous ones were Saavn and Wynk Music. Among many such attempts were facilities that would let you enjoy free music but you couldn't download, except for a payment that you would have to make should you wish to download music offline on your phone or laptop.
With piracy reaching out to the peaks, corporations from around the world started working on methods on how to prevent or battle piracy.