Comments on: News Corp. Working On Music ‘Hulu’ For MySpace

By: Still Rob G

Still Rob G — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:49:42 +0000

Linda there's a phrase here relating to pots, kettles and the color black.
Myspace has been called a piracy site by the record labels, myspace tv in particular is overflowing with non-licensed content. and it used to be possible to create a musician account and share music by any artist you liked. This of course is filtered out now, but myspace did very little to stop it until they became big.

I believer imeem bought snocap because they were using the fingerprinting technology and snocap had essentially run out of VC capital. Imeem became a legitimate contender last year when they started using snocap's filtering, after that warner dropped the lawsuit and signed on.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:16:11 +0000

MySpace banned them b/c Imeem was born as a music piracy site (something the labels don't appreciate). They have been desperately trying to go legit since they got sued a while back. Their partnership and now recent purchase of SNOCAP are evidence of how badly they want to be considered a legit music company to the industry. Its always hard to take advantage of musicians and labels, and then try to convince them that you are suddenly looking out for their best interest. It just rings hollow, and these are a cynical bunch. But, I guess we live in a society that rewards companies that follow this path (YouTube comes to mind). Start by stealing, get big, go legit, leverage the user base that was built illegally. I does seem to work.

By: Still Rob G

Still Rob G — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:16:24 +0000

Yes the comparison to Hulu is disingenuous, there's already a standard to beat in the space and it's called imeem.com

but myspace have never liked imeem.com, they've banned their widgets for as long as I can remember and for a while you couldn't even *mention* imeem on your myspace page without it getting censored.

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:51:57 +0000

Why not just buy Imeem?

By: kenobi

kenobi — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:46:22 +0000

As well as developing the music channel, I heard they're looking to develop a games channel or 'passion centre' as they might call it. The partnerships / news feeds are obvious – IGN etc. Online gaming opportunities? Super extended user session times?