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August 22, 2005

UK ISP Secures P2P License from Sony


digitalcopyright.gif(Sony is on the ball, or so it seems. This is my second post today on Sony BMG’s forward-looking business strategy. )

Cory Doctorow waxes euphoric in this Boing Boing item about a UK ISP called PlayLouder MSP that has secured a license from Sony to allow its customers to legally share any song in the company’s music catalog.

Cory can’t contain his excitement over this development: “I’m prepared to say that this is the best thing to happen to the copyfight all year — maybe all century,” he writes.

More, this is a chance for the labels to extract themselves from the unsustainable quicksand they’ve sunk up to their necks in: suing their customers by the thousands in the hopes that some day, with enough lawsuits, the music-buying public will finally see the light and go back to the malls.

 

Cynthia Brumfield at 12:59 PM|Comments(0)

  

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