Corporate version of Grokster
p2pnet.net News:- It’s been a mere 24 hours since the US Supreme Court announced its ruling on the Grokster p2p file sharing case and already the commercial peer-to-peer scene is undergoing major changes.
LimeWire owner Mark Gorton says he’s almost had enough, and now Sony BMG chief executive Andy Lack says his label, “wants to move forward with a legal version of the Grokster file sharing service, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision that holds the service and others like it responsible for the copyright infringement of its users,” says Reuters.
On the face of it,. one would be inclined to say that with Sony BMG behind it, Grokster would be out of danger. But in the dog-eat-dog world of the corporate music, no one is safe, as the label’s BMG half of can attest.
But, "I’m hopeful we will move forward with a legitimate version of Grokster," Lack is quoted as saying. "It won’t be called Grokster, and it certainly won’t be what Grokster is today," he added.
Bet on it.
Meanwhile, Lack is also partnered with ex-Grokster, ex-Blubster president Wayne Rosso in the Mashboxx p2p application, which uses Napster creator Shawn Fanning’s Snocap verfication app, based on Philips technology.
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See:-
p2p file sharing – Big Win for copyright holders, p2pnet, June 28, 2005
almost had enough – Is LimeWire on the way out?, p2pnet, June 28, 2005
Reuters – Sony BMG eyes Grokster version despite court ruling, June 27, 2005
dog-eat-dog – BMG, Napster ruling, p2pnet, June 4, 2005
June 28th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
“Won’t be the Grokster of today”
That’s good.
Morg
June 28th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
Tell them to license their content as weed files.
June 29th, 2005 at 12:40 am
I tried those lame “weed” files. The creators must be smoking their weed files as they sound like crapola.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
“…it certainly won’t be what Grokster is today.”
*****
so that means it’ll only allow drm’d rental files of their choosing, have a centralised server, and not free?
so that means that with the last few sad souls still using the fasttrack network – and dwindling every day – actually no one will use this new grokster?
that’s ok. we don’t want it. no one does. get lost.