RIAA Supporting Commercial P2P

cgibby98 writes "The AP reports: 'In the last few months, major record labels have signed licensing deals with companies working to field file-swapping services that would block unauthorized files from being traded online.' Most interesting is a service called Peer Impact, which 'can be used to find and purchase tracks from an initial catalog of a half-million songs from all the major labels.... After a user buys a song from Peer Impact, future buyers get it from that member -- or others who have gotten it in the meantime -- instead of from a central server. Users have to pay for each track they download, but sharing songs they've purchased from Peer Impact earns them credits they can spend on the service.'"

Comments

No iPod Support

[sheriff_p]

No iPod support.

I think they're missing the point slightly here. All the cool kids have iPods, not some 'leenuzx g33kz0rs rule' bulky item from Nomad or Creative, or some other company which has completely failed to impinge on the consciousness of people who are actually having sex with actual real people.

I doubt we'll hear from them again.

+Pete