Wippit

Early Legal P2P Music Service Wippit Shuts Down

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 4, 2008 - 8:23am.

London - Wippit, an eight-year-old firm that launched an early, legal peer-to-peer music service, has shut down, Distorted Loop reports. "Wippit has closed. After eight years of pushing the digital boundaries, Wippit can no longer compete in the current market climate. Thank you to everyone that has supported us over the years and apologies to those that will miss us," a Wippit spokesperson told Distorted Loop.

Wippit Makes Rare Beatles Footage Available Online

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 14, 2007 - 4:36pm.

London - Wippit, a U.K.-based digital download service, has secured the rights to offer a range of rare Beatles interviews and other news appearances on its service in all regions -- except North America, the BBC reported. Provided by ITN, Reuters and Pathe, the selections include footage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 "bed-in," the band meeting Queen Elizabeth, and Lennon's comment about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus." Wippit will offer individual clips for about 95 cents, or in bundles starting at about $9.67.

U.K. Download Service Wippit Licenses Warner, Universal Songs

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 9, 2004 - 3:23am.

London -- Wippit, an independent music download service that features some peer-to-peer elements, announced that it has signed agreements to license songs from Warner Music and Universal Music, giving the company agreements with all four major record labels. Under the terms of the agreements, some songs will initially be available either only in the U.K. or only in continental Europe. London-based Wippit said the deals will increase its available library of songs to over 500,000. Neither label's songs will be available on Wippit's closed peer-to-peer file-sharing service, which only allows authorized songs to be traded among Wippit subscribers. The company also operates an a la carte paid music download service.

U.K. Digital Music Service Wippit Licenses Sony Music Tracks

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 12, 2004 - 2:08am.

London -- Wippit, a U.K.-based legitimate file-sharing service and song download store, announced on Wednesday that it has licensed tracks from major label Sony Music for its service. The company has already secured deals with fellow majors BMG and EMI, as well as with 200 independent labels. Along with Wippit, rival OD2 also currently offers legal song downloads to U.K. customers -- although the market will soon expand as Apple, Napster and Sony launch their own respective services in the region later this year.

Reuters: EMI Close to License Deal With Wippit Online Music Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 23, 2003 - 10:25am.

London -- Major record label EMI is close to negotiating a deal to license its songs to Wippit.com, an online service that offers music downloads via both peer-to-peer and centralized server technologies, sources close to the deal told Reuters. Wippit.com currently features 60,000 tracks from independent labels including V2 and Telstar, through a subscription service that offers unlimited downloads for a single, annual fee. Sources told Reuters that EMI may offer as many as 100,000 songs from its catalog on Wippit in the coming weeks.