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| Music Industry ask Napster for help on piracy |
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 at 16:56 by Rich Kavanagh |
The recording industry has turned to its former arch-enemy, the founder of online music file-swapping service Napster, to help it beat the piracy that it once accused him of spawning.
Record giant Universal Music Group has signed a deal with Snocap, a company set up by Napster founder, twenty four year old Shawn Fanning, to license its music for distribution over Snocap's user-to-user file-sharing system.
Larry Kenswil, spokesperson for Universal Music Group said,
"Snocap presents one of the first real solutions that will bring peer-to-peer consumers a broad array of choices in authorized services."
Snocap gives rights holders the control level they need to make their content available on P2P networks, enabling them to sell more music through more channels. After registering their music and copyright information in Snocap's database, labels and artists can manage the online distribution of all their content through Snocap's copyright management interface, which enables them to set business rules for each track, on a global basis. This one-stop ability to manage rights and distribution across multiple online retail locations decreases costs and increases revenue.
Snocap boss Shawn Fanning said,
"The service will fill a market gap between authorized online services offering users a limited selection and those offering users a wide range of music but which are illegal. Snocap is the means to bridge that divide for the consumer.
By giving record labels and artists what they need to deliver their music over any digital platform, including peer-to-peer networks, we are finally realizing the full potential of the Internet as a source of music for fans everywhere."
Universal Music Group has already begun the process of licensing its musical catalogue with Snocap in order to take advantage of the surging number of online music consumers.
It has been five years since the music industry chased Fanning through the law courts trying to get Napster shut down.
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It's great to see the music indusry embracing the work of Mr Fanning - finally. His talents are obvious and his contribution will be of benefit to everyone. I'm certain that this was behind his initial reasons for developing Napster.
To provide a viable, workable and cheap means to give the industry and end users, a great service, at a price everyone can afford.
Piracy is rife as we know, and with the help of those that know that side of the internet well, there could just be a chance that some ground can be regained from the exploits of piracu.
Cheers . . . . Merlin53 |
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| Aha, NOW they want help. I hope Shawn charges them a FORTUNE! |
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