Sonific – Online Music Casualty
Posted by Mark Levy | Posted in Music | Posted on 23-04-2008
Tags: online music, record labels, unfair
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Sonific.com goes offline on May 1, 2008
A message by Gerd Leonhard, Co-Founder & CEO
As a consequence of a the unworkable music licensing situation and the resulting lack of solid revenue modeling Sonific’s founders and investors have decided to temporarily take Sonific.com and Sonific.net offline. While we are looking for other ways to realize our vision we are also open to talking to any interested party that may have use for Sonific’s user base, content relationships, technologies or distribution network (please contact us anytime to find out more). Together with some other partners, we may also investigate the concept of making Sonific a paid-for service that is provided to artists, record labels and other content providers on a white-label basis.
Here are some background details on our decision:
