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Article: Record labels find a way to work with P2P: with SonyBMG reportedly on-board, will the Mashboxx peer-to-peer music service finally resolve the battle between record companies and music downloaders?(News Analysis)(peer-to-peer services)
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- New Media Age
- Article date:
- November 11, 2004
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The news last week that a major record company, SonyBMG, is in advanced talks to offer its content on peer-to-peer services caused major ripples through the music and Internet industries.
The news was even more controversial for most long-time industry watchers because it was reported that not only did SonyBMG senior executives propose the move to work with their previous bete noire technology, but that they have chosen to do so with what the record companies and their trade bodies, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), will see as two rather unlikely players.
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