November 2, 2003
SJ Mercury: Small-amount purchases online may finally happen.
Dan Gillmor. Many early micropayment systems essentially tried to create new currencies. Newer ones use existing financial infrastructures, such as credit cards. Meanwhile, digital content and services are giving us more interesting things to buy.
SF Gate: MIT shuts down alternative file-swapping services.
In its statement, MIT said it was assured by Loudeye that the company was authorized by the record labels to sell the music. But after the service was launched "Loudeye informed us that some of their assurances may have been mistaken."
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