Mntsnow
09-24-2004, 7:43 AM
A 60-person startup company called PassAlong Networks believes it discovered a way to encourage fans to legally share digital music: Cut them in for a piece of the action. This week, the company is set to launch a music download service and "sharing network" that will let customers earn free music by referring songs to friends.
Also this week, online marketplace EBay is set to begin offering PassAlong's collection of 200,000 songs taken from the digital catalogs of a number of major recording industry labels. This will mark the first time that digital titles from the major label titles will be sold via EBay, according to PassAlong.
PassAlong will be participating in a six-month EBay digital music pilot program that was launched in July, EBay says.
Read more at PcWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117901,00.asp)
Also this week, online marketplace EBay is set to begin offering PassAlong's collection of 200,000 songs taken from the digital catalogs of a number of major recording industry labels. This will mark the first time that digital titles from the major label titles will be sold via EBay, according to PassAlong.
PassAlong will be participating in a six-month EBay digital music pilot program that was launched in July, EBay says.
Read more at PcWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117901,00.asp)