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Shawn Fanning Is Back Into Digital Music

Posted by timothy on from the in-many-ways-the-big-boy-never-left-sir dept.

prostoalex writes "News.com has a lengthy 3-page article on Shawn Fanning's new venture, Snocap. After years of development the company is coming out of the stealth mode and has apparently already secured a distribution deal with Universal Music, promising to turn file-sharers into loyal paying customers overnight. Both News.com and Associated Press are skimpy on the details, but apparently Snocap will market the technology that will (a) sniff out the files shared illegally and (b) fill the peer-to-peer networks with licensed content and serve as a clearing house for the ventures who want to license digital music, but don't want to deal with gazillion of music labels." (We mentioned Snocap last in January.)

13 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. Hrmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "promising to turn file-sharers into loyal paying customers overnight"

    Other side-projects include:

    Turning lead into gold. (codenamed "sorceror's" stone, for american market)

    Project "elixir"; granting licensees eternal life.

    Research into rocket powering pigs, and hell-proof cats.

    1. Re:Hrmmm... by DarkMantle · · Score: 1, Funny

      Project "elixir"; granting licensees eternal life.

      I first read that as "External life" and thought it sounded more interesting. But those pigs sound like fun... If they crash you get instant bacon.

      --
      DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
    2. Re:Hrmmm... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      The evil wizard SCOron owns all rights to magical, mythical wizardry and alchemy.

      You must pay 699 frogs legs per spell to use his magic.

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Re:Sounds more like snooozecap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ". (Musically that is, so Project Goethenberg aside)"

    Some kind of swedish public-domain pr0n library, I presume?

  3. Buisness model by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    1: Identify illegal music downloads.

    2: ???

    3: Profit

    --
    God spoke to me.
  4. How to go triple platinum overnight: by RandoX · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTA:Record executives say they are also interested in a feature that will track peer-to-peer requests for songs that aren't yet licensed for digital distribution.

    Just release a single titled "Teen sex anime barnyard hack crack lolita".

  5. Re:In case you are wondering who Shawn Fanning is. by Nos. · · Score: 1, Funny

    I though Shawn stole it from his roommate while the roommate was napping - thus the name Napster

    reference

  6. SQL by clinko · · Score: 1, Funny

    SELECT * from tblArtistlist WHERE
    artist = @SearchArtist and not in (Select Artist from tblBannedArtist)
    OR @SearchArtist = 'Metallica'

  7. Re:I'm already pretty loyal. by PoopJuggler · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean cracking down on Van Halen's "1984"?

  8. Re:CA Crack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, they're just takin' care of business, every day. Takin' care of business, every way.

    Everybody, sing! Yeah, baby!

    Excuse me, but do you have a license to reproduce those lyrics in a public area? We hold the copyright to "takin' Care of Business" by Bachman Turner Overdrive, and we demand that you cease and desist distributing the lyrics to our copyrighted works without a license.

    - RIAA

  9. Re:In case you are wondering who Shawn Fanning is. by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congratulations! You win the award for Best Use of Obvious Information for Karma!

  10. Re:Shawn Fanning Is Back Into Digital Music by david.given · · Score: 2, Funny
    And I know I speak for many people when I say: "Whatever".

    Don't forget the sizeable number of people, myself included, who read the headline and said: "Who?"

  11. Re:I'm already pretty loyal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    oh please god, let the crackdown begin!!