Talking of Napster, but not that Napster, the other Napster, or, more to the point, the founder of it. Keeping up, yeah? Snocap, the second company of original Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has announced licensing deals with a stack of key independent players. The deals suggest Snocap, which will provide the backend to MySpace's planned download sales platform, is getting more heavily involved in the more traditional digital music sales sector, a move away from its original core business of providing song tracking technology for legit P2P networks. The new deals are with The Orchard, CD Baby, Baby New Year, Big Fish Media, Panartist, Redeye Distribution and Virtual Label, and give Snocap and its partners access to large quantities of independent music.
Nov 1, 2006
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Snocap sign licensing deals with independent aggregators
Snocap, founded by Napster's Shawn Fanning, has signed licensing deals with several independent distributors including The Orchard and CD Baby.