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| DJ Coleman |
Released by Sony, they are making a program that will enable users to make file sharing simple, legal, and fun. It will cost money. But you will be able to download all the songs you want. http://www.mashboxx.com/ Check it out!
Grokster, Sony BMG to do legit P2P service?
By Tony Smith
Published Monday 1st November 2004 16:08 GMT
Sony BMG - aka 'Bony' - the merged music label is in talks with Grokster, the P2P software company has confirmed. Negotiations are believed to be focused on the development of a new, label-friendly P2P network.
If launched, the service - said to be called Mashboxxx - would provide both free material and contact with a price-tag attached, according to an Associated Press report citing sources close to the talks.
It's not clear yet how the service would work. Given the Grokster connection, P2P has to be a strong part of the mix, but with a DRM component. Undoubtedly, the client code would block the sharing of unauthorised material, allowing other files to be traded in the usual way. Suitably programmed DRM rules might allow anyone to download a song, play it once or twice, and then require payment before copying to a CD, digital music player or for further listening on the PC.
The Bony/Grokster service is said to utilise digital fingerprinting technology ensure only authorised files are shared. In the UK, music service Wippit has been taking this 'walled garden' approach for some time now, using it as the basis of its MP3-based unlimited download subscription service. Mashboxxx's technology partner is believed to be Snocap, the company set-up by Napster founder Shawn Fanning.
This is the kind of thing Grokster has had its eye on for some time and represents the kind of deal the music industry might have been able to build with a variety of P2P companies if it hadn't got so stuck in its 'P2P = bad' mantra in the early Napster days. Certainly, a number of P2P companies have tried to license content to enable it to be shared openly, but have thus far stumbled partly on label hostility and partly on the sheer complexity of setting up a broad licensing scheme.
Protected P2P services are already emerging - Faircopy and Weed, for example - but the Bony/Grokster deal, if it succeeds, marks the first time a major label has been willing to get involved.
Back in April 2003, then Grokster CEO Wayne Rosso told The Register he'd been talking to a high-placed music industry executive about this kind of thing, and had received a broadly favourable response. Only the music business' extreme sensitivity to any reference to P2P prevented him from naming said executive. The AP report's sources name him as Bony CEO Andrew Lack. ® |
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| Stassi |
just stop already!
isn't dropping links no one gives a about against TA policy?
it should be! |
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| montana |
| just leave and never come back you twit |
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| DJ Coleman |
| Its the first Legal File Sharing program! Thats big news man. Not dropping links. If it wasn't big, i wouldn't post it! Its on CNN, News.com everywhere! |
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| Camwin |
| quote: | Originally posted by montana
just leave and never come back you twit |
Knowing ur age Mr u should grow up! but Coleman u do seem to be lurking a bit so u may want to slow ur roll on the topics, jus give ur self time to sort of establish wat this site is about before u post new topics :) or else ur digging a mass hole for urself, plz take this advice for ur own good, idon't wanna see someone be put down coz of it. |
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| dj_lane |
| hey, p2p expert, without googling, tell me what fastrak is |
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| DJ Coleman |
| The program is supposed to look like Napster. I'm not shure, but i'll tell you guys! |
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| tu_face |
| you should be happy a major label/distribution company is doing this! |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Coleman
Its the first Legal File Sharing program! Thats big news man. Not dropping links. If it wasn't big, i wouldn't post it! Its on CNN, News.com everywhere! |
This may be a legal file sharing alternative, but it is certainly not the first. Im somewhat excited about this new offering, but its not that big of a deal, IMO. I, for one, would still much prefer to pay the artist directly for their music and skip the middle man of the label, but thats just me. |
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| DRM |
| did some1 mention my name in here? |
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| tu_face |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
I, for one, would still much prefer to pay the artist directly for their music and skip the middle man of the label, but thats just me. |
bit of a silly comment considering if you ever buy music your money will never go to the artist, always to the label. it works one of 2 ways; 1) advanced payment - the label pays £x to the artist to make the track with based on projected sales. the artist then doesn't get any more money after that until the label recoups the money it spent. the advance will easily cover the track cost, plus a bit more. the artist will only start getting (a small percentage of) the royalties (your money) until the label has recouped every penny of the advance. 2) royalties only. you make the track, they sell it, you get a percentage of the money it makes. the label still gets your money.
so in conclusion, you will never buy any music without your money going to the label.in fact, paying sony direct probably cuts out more middlemen if the srtist is signed to a sony subsiduary label, as you are missing out the record shop stage.
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| tribu |
| If you dont sell your rights to a label, and thus attempt to press them at home, or sell them digitally via a website, then theres no reason an artist couldnt bypass the label and be paid directly. I know at the moment that it isn't feasible, but I would prefer such a system. Of course, you would lose all the additional benefits that a label can offer (namely, promotion and discounted publication), but if you have a nice talent, or at least one nice flash in the pan, do you really need a label to put you name out there? |
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