The recording industry has “blacklisted” P2P services and is preventing other companies like RealNetworks from doing business with them, according to this story.
British download service Wippit broke off plans to advertise and sell music on Grokster last year after officials determined that Universal Music Group would cut them off.
Also last year, RealNetworks abandoned negotiations to bundle its music-playing software with Morpheus, a deal that could have eventually steered Morpheus users to paid content distributed on Real’s Rhapsody service.
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