Volgens Shawn Fanning, de maker van het oorspronkelijke Napster, wel. VNU/Paidcontent schrijven op hun gezamenlijke weblog over Fannings Snocap:

"(...) In a nutshell, Snocap is offering a one-stop shop for rights management across multiple online retailers as well as valuable market information about demand for their catalogs. The system is designed to be a neutral middleman between the labels and the P2P networks. (...)"