Comments on: Mercora: legal P2P? http://www.beatmixed.com/2004/06/10/mercora-legal-p2p/ Matt Hite, DJ / remixer Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Hite http://www.beatmixed.com/2004/06/10/mercora-legal-p2p/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Matt Hite Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:22:19 +0000 http://www.beatmixed.com/?p=130#comment-118 I found an older reference to Mercora: <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1306684,00.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1306684,00.asp</a> In the article [from Oct. 2003], the author says of Mercora: "And then this past Monday, September 29, Srivats Sampath, former president and CEO of McAfee.com, announced a new alternative to services like Kazaa and Morpheus. Mercora, due to launch early next year, will be an online marketplace where individual Internet users and businesses can come together to buy and sell digital songs. Much like Apple's iTunes and RealNetwork's Rhapsody, online services where you can purchase songs for a small fee, Mercora will let you download music without sparking the ire of the RIAA. The difference between Mercora and existing for-pay online music services is subtle. With iTunes and Rhapsody, the operators license songs from record labels and independent artists and then sell those songs to individual users. Mercora, by contrast, will simply provide the technological means by which labels and artists can themselves sell digital songs to individual Internet users." It seems they have changed their tune with the launch and have morphed in P2P radio. Or maybe they are just setting the stage for this "music eBay." Should be interesting! I found an older reference to Mercora:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1306684,00.asp

In the article [from Oct. 2003], the author says of Mercora:

“And then this past Monday, September 29, Srivats Sampath, former president and CEO of McAfee.com, announced a new alternative to services like Kazaa and Morpheus. Mercora, due to launch early next year, will be an online marketplace where individual Internet users and businesses can come together to buy and sell digital songs. Much like Apple’s iTunes and RealNetwork’s Rhapsody, online services where you can purchase songs for a small fee, Mercora will let you download music without sparking the ire of the RIAA.

The difference between Mercora and existing for-pay online music services is subtle. With iTunes and Rhapsody, the operators license songs from record labels and independent artists and then sell those songs to individual users. Mercora, by contrast, will simply provide the technological means by which labels and artists can themselves sell digital songs to individual Internet users.”

It seems they have changed their tune with the launch and have morphed in P2P radio. Or maybe they are just setting the stage for this “music eBay.” Should be interesting!

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