Major Music Label Loses Executive, LimeWire Wins One
You may not have heard of Jason Herskowitz but we’ll fill you in on that – former VP of product management at Total Music, Universal Music and Sony (SNE) during the time the company was trying to come up with a service that would offer either free downloads or free streaming music, virtually their legal alternative solution to p2p file-sharing. A few months ago the project failed and Project Playlist acquired some of it.
But that was Herskowitz’s old job – what’s he doing now? Well, let us fill you in on that also – he is no less than the VP of product management at LimeWire, a top p2p file-sharing service that has survived lawsuits and virtually about any legal issue thrown at this type of services, still enjoying great popularity and lot and lots of downloads.
Herskowitz has announced his new job on his blog and I’m just picturing the faces of his former employers. Priceless!
Meanwhile, LimeWire does what it was meant to do – allowing users to search and download whatever makes their day (from songs, movies, to applications) over the Internet for free, and does that without compensating any record label. Of course, when you do try to download a copyright protected track (not that I would have tried) a prompt warning from the service does pop up telling you what you’re about to do. After all, he who would disconsider such a message must be the ultimate villain, right?
