A Copyfighter’s Musings

Paidcontent and Postplay have been all over Yahoo! Unlimited’s launch. All Yahoo! coverage here, and summary of launch coverage here and here.  Staci Kramer also interviewed Yahoo! Music’s Dave Goldberg.

Ian Rodgers, one of Yahoo!’s programmers, highlights the service’s new features on his blog.  One particularly interesting aspect to me, pointed out by Lucas Gonze on pho: support for the open playlist sharing format, XSPF (pronounced “spiff”).

PostPlay also covered and excerpted a bit of Napster’s Q1 conference call.  Rafat calls it like it is – Napster sounds desperate.

Finally, PostPlay reports that Peer Impact’s beta
is now available to the public.  Peer Impact is advertised as a
closed P2P network in which one can share licensed content. In exchange
for serving files to others, users get Peer Cash that can count towards
future purchases. Certainly, that’s a good incentive for users, and a
good way for Peer Impact to cut down on bandwidth costs.  At the
same time, Peer Impact’s design doesn’t really feel like sharing on a
P2P network – it’s basically iTunes with a slightly different
GUI.  When you search for a song, you’re not taken to a list of
people who are sharing the file; you go to a page devoted to that song,
album, or artist just like you would in iTunes.  I don’t expect
many consumers will perceive a significant
difference between other digital music services and this one.

Filed by Derek Slater at 2:09 pm under General news
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