CricketMX.com

10/25/2005 7:20 PM, AP

Popular peer-to-peer, file-sharing service iMesh introduced new software Tuesday that allows users to legally share and buy music online.

The service offers access to 17 million music files. About 15 million will be available for free because copyright holders have not asked iMesh to block them.

Another two million protected releases will be sold for 99 cents per song or a $6.95 monthly fee. The company will pay record labels a portion of the revenue for each song downloaded or shared.

"This takes the peer-to-peer experience, turns it on its ear and it becomes a pay service," said Bob Summer, executive chairman of iMesh.

The move comes after New York-based iMesh paid $4.1 million to the recording industry in July 2004 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit. The company also agreed to block users from trading unauthorized copies of songs.

For years, peer-to-peer networks have made it simple to illegally share music online. Sales of recorded music have declined as a result.

Users of iMesh can now legally access songs through the Gnutella network, where musicians and others post music for free sharing. In addition, songs can be bought from the four major music conglomerates.

Mitch Bainwol, chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said iMesh is another example of the growing online marketplace that respects the rights of musicians, songwriters, record labels and others.

"It is a significant moment in the transformation of the peer-to-peer model," he said.

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iMesh: http://www.imesh.com
source: music.yahoo.com

Bleh.... in a word.

It's too bad that all these p2p companies sell out like that. At least winmx wont turn out like that.

I got a $25 fine from the university for copyright infringement.

The RIAA and MPAA hires companies to hunt people down that download and share files. They send a letter to the university stating that someone with such and such an IP address has broken copyright laws. Then the university does thier thing about "disciplinary action," WCU's way is a $25 fine and sometimes a paper about the Millenium Computer Copyright Act.

WCU has a 3 strikes and you're out type thing, once is a slap on the wrist, twice is without internet for the rest of the semester, and the third time it's gone for as long as you're at the university.

Life is great. Came into this world where everything is in primary colors, boy, was I mistaken, everything is brown and smells like *****.

wanabe wrote:
Life is great. Came into this world where everything is in primary colors, boy, was I mistaken, everything is brown and smells like *****.

For someone who doesn't believe they are naturally humorous that is a very funny line!!

I am a primary colours person, so don't tell me it isn't your line!!

Yep it totally ***** sucks that p2p companies are selling out to the RIAA/MPAA demands of installing filters in their p2p software to stop user from sharing copy right material & turning them in to pay per download or monthly fee p2p software.
Thank the p2p gods the WinMX didn't sell out to the RIAA/MPAA demands.

wanabe wrote:

Life is great. Came into this world where everything is in primary colors, boy, was I mistaken, everything is brown and smells like *****.

I agree with you.
it's a materialist capitalist rat race world with the illusion that people have rights & freedoms, but they don't it all about power, control & greed and governments don't want to lose it.They want us all to be sheople that follow there every comand, pay your taxes, obey the laws & buy more more ***** cos it's what's best for the world, don't think of trying to save the world, it's too late to do that.Lets start wars in other countries under the illusion that we're freeing the sheople of that country instead of trying to save the planet & helping the poor.

sometimes I get on a roll, like with the other thread I made in this forum last night,

me wrote:Although to a lot of people rap never was good. But you dont hear anyone with any real musical talent. Bone was the last ones that could sing, and they could sing great. Lil John can't sing worth a *****, all they do to make a record sale is to add some riffs and a ***** load of bass and they go platnum. Yeah some rap groups I listen to strictly for the bass. Rock has gone softer than Foriegner. I mean when Elton John, Foriegner, and Fleetwood Mac can beat the ***** out of green day and good charlotte, that's pretty pussy-like. People, rock isn't about being depressed and sensitive. It's about going to hell and beating the ***** out of people! It's about "feeling fine," and if you don't know what that means, you've been sheltered in a padded cell listening to green day's newest album since the day it came out. Feeling Fine means getting high. That's why the hiar bands like Motley Crue went big, Dr. Feelgood will make it allright.

Where did the R in ROCK go to, all we got now is OCK, which is the sound of me vomiting when green day sings "wake me up when september ends."

It's not so much that we dont have rights, it's just that it has gotten to the point in which corporations are becoming more powerful than the government. The government can't do anything legally because they dont have the right to do anything about large companies taking kids to court.

I'm not exactly knowledgable on this, to me it seems blury, how can a 14 year old be tried as an adult, when they are so clearly not, in more ways than one. I think if a 14 year old murders a classmate they ought to be put into a corrective facility until they become of age, but when they start having these cases where the kid goes to a corrective facility and then tried for the murder and sent to prison for the rest of thier life, it's just wrong. It's not that the juries or judges want this kid to never see the light of day again, it because it isn't in the question, was the kid guilty or not, some dilldo lawyer found a loophole in a law to put this kid where he is.

Although I am way off on subject on how this relates to p2p. If the RIAA had the capability to force p2p networks to shutdown like winmx, they have had that capability for a while and didn't know about it.

Laws have become a joke, it's probably illegal for me to clean a women's restroom at work.

There are laws in North Carolina that basically say it is illegal to masturbate. So if you live in NC, better make sure the doors are closed and the curtians shut. Your neighbor might turn you in, or better yet video tape you doing it

It's crazy, it is almost like 1984 in some aspects, neighbors turning you in for masturbating. If you kid happens to see this post, tell them it means to make mashed potatoes, funny thing is it will go around thier school. The other kids will go home and ask if they're going to masturbate their parents will freak, and probably go into the bathroom and laugh thier ass off when they find out what they really meant. I'm not clear on the parallel with masterbating and making mashed potatoes are, but it just sounds funny to me. Kids also turned thier parents in 1984.

But yes everything is brown and smells like *****. I'll put that in my signature.