{"id":3678,"date":"2006-07-30T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/07\/30\/omg-licensed-p2p\/"},"modified":"2006-07-30T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T22:16:14","slug":"omg-licensed-p2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/07\/30\/omg-licensed-p2p\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG Licensed P2P!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1831'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, Mashboxx announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashboxx.com\/newrelease.html\">licensing deal<\/a> with EMI. Over a year ago, it announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashboxx.com\/release.html\">its first licensing<\/a> deal with Sony.&nbsp; The service is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashboxx.com\/thankyou.html\">not even in its first beta<\/a>.&nbsp; After many laudatory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/20\/business\/yourmoney\/20fanning.html?ex=1290142800&amp;en=847e39c379d344d5&amp;ei=5088\">articles<\/a> and nearly a year after a Snocap rep contacted me because I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/pc\/arch\/2005_09_12.shtml#015786\">called the P2P filtering and payment service &#8220;vapor&#8221; over at Paidcontent<\/a>, Snocap&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Fannings+Snocap+tests+music+sales\/2100-1027_3-6098859.html\">announced<\/a> its new Linx retail service. Yet, so far as I know, the P2P system still has not been implemented in a live service.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kazaa settled and will open up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-kazaa28jul28,1,3875749.story?coll=la-headlines-business\">new licensed service<\/a> at a later time.&nbsp; Given the above, I bet Licensed Kazaa will launch some time in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s what I call progress.<\/p>\n<p>(To be fair, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theformat\">implementation of Linx<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theformat\"> here<\/a> is actually kinda neat, and I&#8217;m all for rights aggregation of this sort.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s sad (and predictable) how slowly these licensed distribution services are being rolled out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Mashboxx announced a licensing deal with EMI. Over a year ago, it announced its first licensing deal with Sony.&nbsp; The service is still not even in its first beta.&nbsp; After many laudatory articles and nearly a year after a Snocap rep contacted me because I had called the P2P filtering and payment service [&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-3678","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\/3678","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=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}