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What If Napster Mattered?


Napster recently released their 6 million catalog MP3 store and the world hit the snooze button. I mean, who really cares about Napster; their mp3 player sucks (ie it’s not an iPod), I can get better content from the illegal networks, they don’t really differentiate themselves from Rhapsody, and at the end of my contract, [...]

Creating a Legal Alternative to the Illegal Networks


Exclusives are the common trade practice for most industries to help companies get a competitive advantage over others. AT&T and the iPhone, the Super Bowl on FOX, Madonna on Verizon, etc.
Now for the first two, the exclusives make sense. You can’t use an iPhone on Verizon and you can’t watch the Super Bowl on CBS, [...]

Startup: Slacker Signs Deal With All 4 Major Labels (Publishers)


Slacker, despite the name, has taken every effort to gain licenses from all 4 major labels and has finally succeeded. Seeing that there are no downloads involved, the publishing sides of the major labels have agreed to go forward with the deal. Typically the publishing sides of the majors are a lot more likely to [...]

Grooveshark: Candyman is Coming -Ringtone


Part of a promotion we’re doing with the Candyman, here’s a draft post:

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Grooveshark: Weedshare Founder Endorses the Grooveshark Model (indirectly)


John Beezer, the co-founder of Weedshare, whose company is now on the auction block is giving up some suggestions on how they should have done Weedshare for the potential purchasers, and the ideas he’s floating sound awfully similar to the model we’re building at Grooveshark.
Here’s a sample of his suggestions from p2pnet:
Lesson learned: even benign [...]