JAGeGunz
11-14-2005, 12:04 AM
Grokster, the sharing service that no one we know ever used, settled with the recording industry for a whopping 50 million USD, shut down its illegal P2P operations, and was promptly snatched up by MashBoxx, who'd been waiting in the wings.
The two plan to launch MashBoxx's new legal file sharing service in the near future, and there was much jubilation amongst the music-starved internet masses. Or was there?
File sharing P2P networks are something that was intended to distribute files within a community with no centralized servers. It's pure sharing in the digital age, from the people to the people.
MashBoxx, and anyone willing to enter the music arena against iTunes, are more than welcome to start their own online music sales services, but using a file sharing network to sell copyrighted material is akin to handing customers a stick and get them to beat their own heads with it - on a 'legal' file sharing service, users will be paying for both the privilege of dealing with MashBoxx, and for the transport costs of the file itself, a wonderful deal for record executives, who are looking none the worse for the alleged losses they've been suffering, and who have so far failed to produce any starving artists.
The two plan to launch MashBoxx's new legal file sharing service in the near future, and there was much jubilation amongst the music-starved internet masses. Or was there?
File sharing P2P networks are something that was intended to distribute files within a community with no centralized servers. It's pure sharing in the digital age, from the people to the people.
MashBoxx, and anyone willing to enter the music arena against iTunes, are more than welcome to start their own online music sales services, but using a file sharing network to sell copyrighted material is akin to handing customers a stick and get them to beat their own heads with it - on a 'legal' file sharing service, users will be paying for both the privilege of dealing with MashBoxx, and for the transport costs of the file itself, a wonderful deal for record executives, who are looking none the worse for the alleged losses they've been suffering, and who have so far failed to produce any starving artists.