Editing BitPass (section)

==Mperia==
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'''Mperia''' was an online music store founded in 2003 by BitPass to use the BitPass payment system. Launched by Huang and Joshua Ellis, it was aimed toward allowing independent musicians to sell their music online.<ref name="Gordon2005">{{cite book|author=Steve Gordon|title=The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies : a Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDjWp3pTwFAC&pg=PA228|accessdate=18 June 2014|year=2005|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-0-87930-844-5|pages=228–}}</ref><ref>http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1036A4943874038A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011121805/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1036A4943874038A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=2014-10-11 }}</ref>  Artists could upload their own music directly, and could price their own music, with tracking costing between US$0.25 and US$1.50. No [[digital rights management]] features were permitted. Artists kept 70% of each track's revenue.

In 2004, Mperia partnered with [[CD Baby]] to sell tracks from CDBaby's catalog.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CD Baby Gets Digital with BitPass|url=https://sonicstate.com/news/2004/12/05/cd-baby-gets-digital-with-bitpass/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Sonicstate|language=en}}</ref>

With the shutdown of BitPass, Mperia also shut down in early 2007.<ref name="shutdown1">Vitka, William (20 January 2007). [https://archive.today/20130130132728/http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/gamereport/item_MFfkEqYiOXBB3n8bTUXyPK Mperia, Bitpass Shutting Down], ''New York Post''</ref>