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One-time music industry nemesis matures into copyright guardian
0 Comments | AFP, September, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — The force behind one-time music industry nemesis Napster has changed his tune by becoming a guardian of copyrighted songs. Napster founder Shawn Fanning helped to create SNOCAP, a San Francisco company that uses digital "fingerprinting" of music and an extensive directory of songs to thwart online sales or swapping of copyrighted works.
Globally popular social networking website MySpace recently teamed with SNOCAP to enable musician members to sell their songs on MySpace pages. Shortly after the announcement, Canadian alternate-rock band Barenaked Ladies made its new "Barenaked Ladies Are Me" CD available for digital download on MySpace for 89 cents a song. "The landscape has changed for the two biggest constituents of the music industry, the fans and...
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