p2pnet - rss feed: iMesh corporate p2p
p2p news / p2pnet: As first reported by p2pnet last week, iMesh, stomped by the Big Four record label cartel’s RIAA to the tune of $4.1 million, is again open for business as a “label approved” p2p “network”.
“If it’s trying to pull people over from the P2P world, it’s an important first step,” GartnerG2 analyst Mike McGuire is quoted as saying by CNET News.
“But meeting the basic bar that’s been set by legitimate services like iTunes or Rhapsody is going to be a real challenge.”
This suggests that iMesh isn’t ‘legitimate’ when the whole point of the exercise is, of course, that it’s now ‘legal’.
In July 2004, the Big Four Organized Music companies, EMI Group, Vivendi Universal, Sony BMG and Warner Music agreed to let the old iMesh continue operating, “even with millions of copyrighted songs being traded online - while the new service was being developed,” says CNET.
“In return, iMesh agreed to pay labels $4.1 million.”
There’s “genuine excitement about the offering,” the story has RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boss Mitch Bainwol saying.
iMesh is using the RIAA’s Audible Magic DRM (Digital Rights Restriction) package and will running music rentals whereby users pay a monthly fee for downloans which vanish as soon as they stop paying.
“We’re hopeful that that P2P becomes a legitimate part of the distribution of music,” says Bainwol
It will indeed become so and, when it does, it’ll be in spite of the RIAA and its owners.
As p2pnet originally reported, punters will be able to try out iMesh 6, as the beta has been dubbed, for 30 days or so before forking out $7 a month for the full service.
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See:-
first reported - iMesh downloans beta, October 20, 2005
CNET News - Legal P2P opens for business, October 24, 2005
October 25th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
How can the record industry suddenly change peoples perceptions of music ownership? Since the industry was ‘launched’, it’s been about hoarding a ‘collection’ - music taps into people’s hobbyist mentality.
Suddenly, we’re “ok” with a complete lack of ownership. Well, that is according to Napster, Yahoo and the like.
Yes, I agree you’ll have a lot of samplers. But the main thrust, where the money comes from, are those that like the idea of having a cool collection to have forever!
On another note:-
I was just thinking - does all this encoding actually take away from the sound quality of the music file? Say compare a ‘pure’ unrestricted to a DRM’d song?
October 25th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
I said it before, and now it’s happened. They tried to “leverage” the name and popularity of iMesh just like they did with Napster (after they sued and took over operations)….
…. BUT, it is NOT working …. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
No kid or adult in their right mind will fall into the RIAA traps….. HAHHAAHH LOL…LOL>>>>LOL
October 25th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
“does all this encoding actually take away from the sound quality of the music file?”
Digital Restrictions Managment (DRM) does not affect the audio quality of a digital music file. It is a “lock & key” system to restrict who is able (and more importantly who is NOT able) to play back the file and how it is used* by the person who has leased the temporary “right” to listen to it.
*Restrictions on burning and transfering to portables, etc…
October 25th, 2005 at 6:53 pm
Corporate & p2p in the same sentence. Scary thought. How long before content “owners” mandate a pay button on every PC, TV set, and Audio system? Pay to play, every time. That’s their push.
That’s it! “TAKING THE “L” OUT OF PLAY” The big music/hollywood mantra!
(The “L” stands for LOOT!)
October 25th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
Imesh is a Musicnet (http://www.musicnet.com/) store like Yahoo Music Unlimited with a filtered Gnutella client tacked onto it .You can still download fakes ,viri,trojans,and all the porn ya want you just cant download material that has be digitally fingerprinted by the cartels and Blocked by Audible magic .
Its not even Corporate p2p the other p2p network at least gives you a credit for uploading this is just a Online store hiding under the guise of p2p .
October 26th, 2005 at 8:33 am
Audible, schmawdible….Just run something like Total Recorder that can record in .mp3, listen to what you want, and then you will have a DRM free .mp3 replica of it. There might be a very slight degradation in quality, but in most cases it would be hardly noticable.
If you prefer, record it to .wav or PCM (digital represetnations of the analog waveform) then you can post-process it to clean it up or enhance it and it can be of better quality than the original.
October 26th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
I have a question, does IMesh filter all the zipped albums of MP3’s as well as the copywrited MP3’s.
I can’t see how audible magic will unzip and scan every file you download through gnutella!
P.S. I appologise to IMesh if I exposed a chink in their armor!!
October 26th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
na, you can only download Music and Video files with the latest release
October 27th, 2005 at 12:31 am
The EFF reported on the ineffectiveness of Audible Magic a while ago .
Audible Magic — No Silver Bullet for P2P Infringement
http://www.eff.org/share/?f=audible_magic.html
http://www.eff.org/share/?f=audible_magic.html