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[Posted on September 5, 2006 - 6:37 PM]
Last fall, The Deal wrote about how peer-to-peer computing was shedding its outlaw image. Reporter Stacey Higginbotham cited as examples the VC dollars flowing into startups such as open-source software developer BitTorrent Inc. and also Vivox Inc., a specialized Boston-based P2P voice service for Internet dating and gaming sites. Of course, the biggest news on the P2P front in 2005 was eBay Inc.'s $4.1 billion purchase of Skype Technologies SA, the venture-backed P2P Internet telephony service.

On Tuesday, another P2P startup made news when MySpace announced its new music download service, powered by SnoCap. Venture-backed Snocap is the brainchild of Napster Inc. founder Shawn Fanning. The company's vice president of business development, Alex Rofman, told TheDeal.com he expects Snocap will probably get into the video market next and, in the future, video games, digital text and digital photos. The news is further evidence that businesses based on peer-to-peer solutions are no longer banished from the garden of e-commerce.- Tom Groppe

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