PC Mag Reviews Mercora P2P Radio

Posted by michael on Monday January 31, 2005 @01:02AM from the all-i-hear-is-radio-gaga dept.

prostoalex writes "PC Magazine reviews Mercora peer-to-peer streaming radio. It's not a service which allows anyone to download songs, however you can listen to any of the top 20 million plus songs available on the network from more than 2000 private radiostations. Mercora supports keyword search by genre, song name or artist name, but does not allow to listen to more than four songs from the same artist to avoid copyright issues. Any Mercora user automatically becomes a broadcaster, when the app scans the drive for digital music and then suggests creating an ad-hoc Internet radiostation."

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Too bad it's bundled with adware by Spic · 2005-01-31 01:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

I just downloaded and installed Mercora and as soon as I did, my Microsoft Antispyware flagged Grokster as trying to install. Just a bit or warning.
Re:How does this get around ASCAP royalty fees? by pedestrian+crossing · 2005-01-31 01:10 · Score: 5, Interesting

According to the article, they pay the royalty fees, although it doesn't say where the money is coming from. Hmmm....

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