{"id":3626,"date":"2004-11-12T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/11\/12\/universal-reportedly-in-talks-with-s"},"modified":"2004-11-12T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T21:09:22","slug":"universal-reportedly-in-talks-with-snocap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/11\/12\/universal-reportedly-in-talks-with-snocap\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Reportedly in Talks with Snocap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a920'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/digitalmusicnews.com\/#111204universal\">So reports Digital Music News.<\/A>&nbsp; Snocap is also reportedly involved in the <A href=\"http:\/\/p2pnet.net\/story\/2860\">BMG\/Mashboxx\/Grokster deal.<\/A>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s that only these closed network ventures get attention, while superdistribution services like <A href=\"http:\/\/weedshare.com\/\">Weedshare<\/A> are left in the cold.&nbsp; I understand the worry that distributing Weed files on KaZaA might lead people to then download infringing content, and the record companies don&#8217;t want to support those P2P ventures; however, Weed would help give them an easy alternative to those already on KaZaA &#8211; it wouldn&#8217;t really create greater illusion of illegitimacy to illegal downloading.&nbsp; If they&#8217;re going to embrace a service like Grokster via Mashboxx, why not simply take the next step?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So reports Digital Music News.&nbsp; Snocap is also reportedly involved in the BMG\/Mashboxx\/Grokster deal.&nbsp; It&#8217;s that only these closed network ventures get attention, while superdistribution services like Weedshare are left in the cold.&nbsp; I understand the worry that distributing Weed files on KaZaA might lead people to then download infringing content, and the record companies [&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-3626","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\/3626","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=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}