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Peer Impact Signs 3 Major Record Labels

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the late-than-never dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Three of the Big Four music labels have reached licensing agreements to provide their music to the soon-to-launch Peer Impact network, a peer-to-peer service that enables legal music file-sharing."

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  1. Paying to Share by 93,000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're paying money to 'share', aren't you really buying rather than sharing?

    It seems like they're bastardising the concept of sharing to exploit the term's popularity.

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    Sweet informative mod.
    1. Re:Paying to Share by PhilHibbs · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think the term "share" was already bastardised by those that like to justify copyright violaton in the name of "sharing".

  2. So, who's gonna be the first.... by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...to allow a piece of software created by 3 of the "big 4" to run on their system?

    You don't even need to be a tinfoil hat type to see that this is an extremely bad idea. I have no wish to be Pwn3d by the RIAA.

    Can't wait to see what kinda packets people find this thing sending back to its masters.

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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.
  3. Doesn't look good by efedora · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Pest Patrol http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/w/wurldmedia.as p#Overview
    WURLD Media, Inc.

    WurldMedia partners with StreamCast Networks, Inc., developers of Morpheus. A download of Morpheus will result in the installation of components associated with AtomWire and other browser helper objects. Components within a Morpheus installation will carry a variety of developer names within the code, including ESD Technologies, Inc., John Marshall, My Way, Summit Software Company, Wurld Media Inc., and XMLAuthor Inc.

  4. Re:"sharing" by nutrock69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, let me get this straight...

    I buy a song, download it with their app, then I'm considered a sharer. Someone else buys the song, pays the company, then downloads the song from me.

    Am I going to get a "Shipping & Handling" fee from the company for storing the song on my pc for someone else to download? Who's going to be paying me for my bandwidth spike if the song is popular? Am I going to be required to share every song I buy 24/7 so that it's available for others to download when they buy?

    Sounds like a pretty good scam to me. Selling music for someone else and you don't even have to store it on your own servers or use any of your own bandwidth except for the tracker.

    mmm... I smell a patent being filled out...

  5. Re:Legal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if you have a valid 'Forced Restrictions on Expressive Elocution for the Sustained Protection of Entertainment Enterprise Corporate Holdings' aka FREESPEECH License.