Shawn Fanning strikes indies deal
p2pnet.net News:- Shawn Fanning has struck further Snocap deals. And they aren’t with additional members of the Big Music record label cartel.
Instead, he’s focusing on agreements, “with some of the industry’s most prominent independent labels and aggregators” which call for Snocap to provide technology and database services for the digital distribution of the labels’ music catalogues.
Snowcap uses Royal Philips Electronics audio fingerprinting technology to identify and track music.
It first started attracting serious attention a while back when it was melded to Wayne Rosso’s Mashboxx, p2p application, which is itself close to official release.
The idea behind Mashboxx is to let people use file sharing to discover music for free, but then to charge them for songs they want to keep for prices not far removed from the $1-a-download charged by existing corporate sites such as iTunes.
The indie labels who’ve signed up with Snocap include: Absolutely Kosher Records, Artemis Records/Sheridan Square Entertainment, Gammon Records, Streetbeat Records / Pandisc / Kriztal Entertainment, Nacional Records, Nettwerk Records, OM Records/Deep Concentration, Reality Entertainment and TVT Records.
“In addition, Independent Online Distribution Alliance, a premiere aggregator of independent label content for digital distribution, has signed an agreement to bring more than 75,000 tracks from 500 independent labels to Snocap,” says Fanning.
He adds that Snopcap is also “allied” with Sony BMG and Universal, two members of the Big Music cartel who destroyed his Napster p2p application in the first place.
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See:-
Snocap – SNOCAP Allies with Leading Independent Labels to Fulfill the Promise of Commercial Peer to Peer, March 17, 2005
Royal Philips Electronics – Shawn Fanning and Sony BMG, p2pnet, March 4, 200
March 20th, 2005 at 3:53 am
nice editing. i especially liked when you called Snocap “snowcap”, and then “snopcap.”
March 20th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
You forgot to include socrap.
March 22nd, 2005 at 5:05 am
Fanning reminds me of that old saying “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” Dude’s a sell out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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