Cos. to Sell Songs on File-Share Service
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Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service that aims to lure music fans away from rival services where trading of music and movies remains unfettered.
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Users have found a way to skirt copy protection on Napster Inc.'s  portable music subscription service just days after its high-profile launch, potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free.
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But Windows only, for now Popular P2P music sharing service Mercora has released a client for mobile devices. Mercora allows members to play each other their own songs and playlists across the network - it's legal, and royalties are collected and distributed to rights holders.â¦
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The label thinks about selling its downloads without restrictions.
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Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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A new music service called FlyTunes is making a bid for the attention of users of the iPhone, iPod touch and other portable media players and media-ready cell phones.
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The world&#39;s largest music company is discussing ways to distribute its songs through Grokster and other Internet file-swapping services, a deal that would embrace a technology long under legal assault by the recording industry.
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A revamped online file-sharing service aims to woo legions of music fans by offering unlimited, free song downloads that are compatible with iPods, and all with the blessing of major recording companies.
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Qtrax, a new legal online file-sharing service that allows fans to download songs for free, said on Sunday it will launch with 25 million to 30 million copyrighted tracks with backing from major labels.
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(InfoWorld) - SpiralFrog has reached an agreement with EMI Music Publishing, one of the largest music publishers in the world, to use its songs and lyrics for a music download service scheduled to roll out in a beta version by November. SpiralFrog, whichÂ announced its first dealÂ with Universal Music Group last week, plans to offer free song downloads, with the service funded through advertising. "This is just the start of signing major labels and music publishers to offer their catalogs to the users of SpiralFrog," said Neville Hobson, SpiralFrog spokesman. SpiralFrog isÂ one of several technology companiesÂ and music publishers forging alliances in an effort to suppress illegal music downloading, blamed by record labels for falling sales. SpiralFrog said their service will be a high-quality alternative to file-sharing sites that are "characterized by poor-quality music, missing song details and spyware." Music on SpiralFrog will be in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format and encoded with rules on how the track can be used, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM). The record labels will retain the power to set restrictions on how a song can be used, Hobson said. It's planned that songs will be playable on a user's computer and transferable to two portable devices. But the songs can't be burned to a CD, and they can't be shared with other people, he said. The songs will remain playable only as long as a person regularly logs into their SpiralFrog account. The choice of format means the content won't be playable on Apple Computer's iPod media player, which dominates the industry. Songs downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store will play on PCs or Macintoshes, but can only be transferred to the company's iPod media players. Users can buy individual songs or entire albums. But Apple's competitors are experimenting with other business models such as subscription services, which allow access to thousands of songs at a time as long as the subscription fee is paid, and ad-funded free services, to lure users away. SpiralFrog's deal with EMI will also allow users to search and display the lyrics from EMI's catalog, the companies said. EMI holds more than one million copyrights, it said, and publishes artists including James Blunt, Eminem, Jay-Z and the Arctic Monkeys.
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MySpace.com will soon enable members of the popular online social networking hub to sell downloads of their original music directly through MySpace Web pages, company executives said Friday.
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Music fans have been slow to buy music  on their mobile phones. So several companies have responded  with services that let users access from their phones music  that is stored on their computers.
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Artists from Cliff Richard to Amy Winehouse will be paid when their tracks are used as backing music for clips on video-sharing Web site YouTube following a deal with the British society that collects royalties for composers, songwriters and publishers.
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Microsoft insists its music store differs from iTunes, but the two services sure have a lot in common. The company will sell songs for $1 like Apple, and plans to match the volume of songs Apple makes available to users.
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$5/month Web-based service will deliver the songs without commercial interruption.
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By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 14--Peer-to-peer file-trading is very inexpensive, but it's not easy to do, and it's mostly illegal. Buying songs online or in the store is easy, but it can get expensive pretty quickly.
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Online file-sharing is less of a problem for the movie industry because it has a much more diverse revenue model. In addition to the sale of movie tickets, money comes in from co-branding