{"id":3467,"date":"2004-02-04T00:40:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T04:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/02\/04\/wippit-good\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T04:40:04","slug":"wippit-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/02\/04\/wippit-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Wippit Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a591'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=528&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/ap\/20040202\/ap_on_hi_te\/taming_file_sharing\">This article<\/A> mentions a few new legit services that take advantage of P2P. <A href=\"http:\/\/wippit.com\/\">Wippit <\/A>seems particularly interesting.&nbsp; It filters in content using audio fingerprinting.&nbsp; The rest is a little hazy to me.&nbsp; The company advertises that you can share filtered in files with others, but this article says <A href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/business\/7089138.htm\">you can&#8217;t.<\/A>&nbsp; Pretty sure the former is true.&nbsp; The company advertises MP3 downloads, but that same article says it&#8217;s DRMed WMA.&nbsp; Pretty sure the latter is true, at least with EMI on board.&nbsp; According to EMI executive Ted Cohen (in an email to the pho list), songs are currently only downloadable from EMI servers, not from other peers.&nbsp; What is really surprising is that you can supposedly keep all the songs after the subscription ends &#8211; these are not rentals; they are sales &#8211; I swear I read the opposite somewhere else, but the website attests to that, too.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So a little more research is needed. In any case, it&#8217;s heading&nbsp;much closer to blanket collective licensing &#8211; not quite an ACS, but similar in terms of the payment and distribution model.&nbsp; A very interesting development indeed.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article mentions a few new legit services that take advantage of P2P. Wippit seems particularly interesting.&nbsp; It filters in content using audio fingerprinting.&nbsp; The rest is a little hazy to me.&nbsp; The company advertises that you can share filtered in files with others, but this article says you can&#8217;t.&nbsp; Pretty sure the former is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}