| P2P Security News : Cool : Legal music, No viruses, No lawyers ! |
| Posted by Max on 2007/2/19 14:52:53 (1095 reads) |
How would you like a service that provides:
- Guaranteed quality
- Legal music with no additional charges for music service
- Music is even easier to find
- Files are guaranteed quality, with full information
- Best downloading and radio services
- No spoofs, no viruses, no lawyers
Chances are it will become real later this year!
In England, a venture called PlayLouder MSP is negotiating deals with record companies and music publishers for a competitively priced high-speed Internet access service that will include the right to download millions of songs, transfer them to portable devices and share them with friends. The main restriction is that subscribers can't send songs to people who aren't customers of PlayLouder MSP. In other words, it's a private electronic playground for music lovers.
The company, which expects to launch its service this year, plans to put a chunk of the monthly service charges into a royalty pool that would be divided according to popularity—the more often a song is downloaded, the larger the share of the pool that its copyright holders will receive.
To monitor the network and enforce its borders, PlayLouder MSP relies on technology that can identify songs as they pass through the network—and, if necessary, block them. So far, several large independent labels from the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to let the company offer MP3s of all their songs, while two of the majors, Sony BMG and EMI, have agreed to supply songs wrapped in electronic locks.
Those locks won't make much difference, though; as part of the deal, subscribers will be free to share MP3s from all of PlayLouder MSP's partners, including Sony BMG and EMI.
From the PlayLouder MSP FAQ :
# How will the "fingerprint" technology on the digital music files work?
"All music supplied through the PlayLouder MSP will be given its own unique 'fingerprint', a short digital code that enables a computer file and any copies to be identified. The fingerprint will be used to provide a definitive set of information, for instance artist and track names, and will serve as the key to a universe of relevant up to date music and events information only available to PlayLouder subscribers."
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