ON THE WEB: More legal than P2P
Why steal music when you can stream it? That?s the idea behind Mercora — a startup that allows users to listen to music files on other people?s hard drives. Instead of swapping schemes of the Kazaa and Grokster ilk, Mercora allows users to broadcast songs as does radio. Since the RIAA isn?t about to put radio stations out of business, Mercora could be a legal alternative to peer-to-peer file-swapping. The question is, will iPod users buy into a program that tethers them to their PCs? Read more here
January 25th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
Actually Adriana, the RIAA is about to put web radio stations out of business (at least many of them are complaining that licensing will cost them too much). Mercora is an interesting approach however. And who knows? If we get sufficiently ubiquitous wireless Internet people may start making portable wifi connected players…