Brad over @ The Digital Music Weblog has done a nice little writeup on MashBoxx and Peer Impact, here are some choice excerpts:
“Peer Impact targets a middle ground between a traditional download store like iTMS and a P2P environment; the half-million-track catalog is licensed and wrapped in the same sort of copy-protection that governs use of Napster To Go tracks. The main difference from a user’s viewpoint is that downloads are acquired from other users; if nobody else has purhcased a track you want, then Peer Impact serves it to you directly. Once you own a track, you are encouraged to keep Peer Impact running all the time, making your library available to other users. When you participate in an upload, you earn Peer Cash—service credit that can be accumulated and used to buy music. Peer Impact saves bandwidth expenses by distributing the workload, and users enjoy rewards that might be compared to frequent flyer miles.”
Has anyone else tried the Peer Impact beta? Will anyone?
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