The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Warner Music Group makes out with MP3.Com

Anything's better than Napster

Free whitepaper – Optimizing the data center for cost and efficiency

Warner Music Group has granted MP3.com a licence to distribute its music over the MyMP3.com channel. At the same time it has dropped its copyright infringement suit against MP3.com, upon agreeing terms for royalty splits with the digital music download pioneer.

Warner is the first of the five music majors to settle with MP3.com, following the launch of myMP3.com last year. It will be interesting to see if the others follow suit - MP3.com is a very tame beast indeed, compared with Napster, its very noisy, very anarchic cousin.

MP3.Com offers copyright protection, and royalty collation and collection - something which makes it inherently less popular than free-for-all Napster.®

Free whitepaper – Dell/EMC CX4 and Dell PowerEdge blades

Don’t Miss

DustbinDirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide

Ventblockers Horror beyond human imagination

SC09Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores

SC09 Jaguar munches Roadrunner

Ubuntu teaser Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

Smooth Windows upgrade it ain't

Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter

Narrowcasting for the email classes