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Sony Licenses Its Content to P2P Service
posted by turmis on Sunday March 03, @12:27PM
from the see-how-easy-that-was? dept.
Digital Entertainment In a surprising move, Sony became the first major recording label to license its content to a peer-to-peer service. For a reported $4.5 million in cash and stock, Sony licensed CenterSpan, the new owners of the defunct Scour.net software, to distribute its content on a pay-for-service basis. CenterSpan has revamped the scour.net platform to include copyright protection protocols and is seeking to launch what could be the first recording label approved peer-to-peer network. More at Newsbytes and Yahoo!

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