EMI Links With Mashboxx P2P

EMI has signed a deal with Mashboxx to distribute it’s entire US catalog via legal P2P. Sony BMG also cut a deal with the service in late June.

Mashboxx searches existing P2P networks looking for tracks and then allows the downloader to listen up to five times free before paying to download it.  After that the track becomes a 30 second sampler.  If purchased a track can be burned onto CD up to seven times, played on five PCs, and transferred to Windows Media-compatible portable players an unlimited number of times.

Mashboxx says their software will begin beta testing soon. Sign up here.