You can easily make the argument that the only reason imeem has managed to pull this off is due to Snocap.
imeem and Snocap (founded by Napster creator Shawn Fanning) hooked up in March of 2007. After that, all of the various pending label lawsuits against imeem were eventually dropped in favor of tagging, tracking, sales and DRM in place through Snocap.
To their credit, imeem has a team of extremely hard working people that are very, very good at communicating with content owners and creators. They also managed to create an infinitely less horrendous user experience than Myspace.
However, when it comes to the major labels, I think you have to take a long hard look at what Snocap provided here to see how imeem survived.
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You can easily make the argument that the only reason imeem has managed to pull this off is due to Snocap. imeem and Snocap (founded by Napster creator Shawn Fanning) hooked up in March of 2007. After that, all of the various pending label lawsuits against imeem were eventually dropped in favor of tagging, tracking, sales and DRM in place through Snocap.
To their credit, imeem has a team of extremely hard working people that are very, very good at communicating with content owners and creators. They also managed to create an infinitely less horrendous user experience than Myspace. However, when it comes to the major labels, I think you have to take a long hard look at what Snocap provided here to see how imeem survived.
Professional Rockstars on imeem: http://professionalrockstars.imeem.com/
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