Unsueable Davey Brown
March 25th, 2005, 09:46 AM
I can't help noticing there are methods of sharing files that are generally accepted as legal.
I'm not aware of any single service where you can access all these methods from one location. I'm thinking it might be good to have one of those.
What I'm proposing is one service with multiple legal services built in like this:
Indie Music: Many independent musicians allow downloading of individual songs for promotion. Personally my problem when it comes to indie music is I don't know what's good, and I'm not inclined to go to the effort of finding out. This service would provide the effort of finding good music, musicians want to offer up for promotion. There would be a link where you could buy the album. If the service were to become popular, I'm thinking more and more musicians would be anxious to provide singles.
Streaming Music: Internet radio is legal, so why not connect an internet radio station to the service. The quality indie songs that had been selected would receive play as well as popular music. It could also have an option of selecting legal songs found elsewhere on the service for streaming to the radio end by a click.
Legal Torrents: More and more creators of digital information are expressing a choice to provide their creations via torrent. The service would provide a method of efficiently facilitating this. Only files certified legal would be allowed.
A Website/Message-board: Everything concerning the service, filesharing in general, and entertainment would be discussed here. Indie musicians who use the service would receive promotion.
Traded Files: OK this is where it maybe gets dicey, but I continue to maintain things have changed now that specific digital files are sold via the internet. To my way of thinking you own that file, and can trade it. By trading I mean you register the file with the service, guaranteeing yourself as legal owner of the file. You offer it up for 1 on 1 trade. Once the trade is complete, the original file is deleted. You can also provide the file up for streaming to a media player, just to prove the file is good.
You would have to have financial backing for this last one, because it would of course be challenged in court.
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So whataya think? Would this work?
I'm not aware of any single service where you can access all these methods from one location. I'm thinking it might be good to have one of those.
What I'm proposing is one service with multiple legal services built in like this:
Indie Music: Many independent musicians allow downloading of individual songs for promotion. Personally my problem when it comes to indie music is I don't know what's good, and I'm not inclined to go to the effort of finding out. This service would provide the effort of finding good music, musicians want to offer up for promotion. There would be a link where you could buy the album. If the service were to become popular, I'm thinking more and more musicians would be anxious to provide singles.
Streaming Music: Internet radio is legal, so why not connect an internet radio station to the service. The quality indie songs that had been selected would receive play as well as popular music. It could also have an option of selecting legal songs found elsewhere on the service for streaming to the radio end by a click.
Legal Torrents: More and more creators of digital information are expressing a choice to provide their creations via torrent. The service would provide a method of efficiently facilitating this. Only files certified legal would be allowed.
A Website/Message-board: Everything concerning the service, filesharing in general, and entertainment would be discussed here. Indie musicians who use the service would receive promotion.
Traded Files: OK this is where it maybe gets dicey, but I continue to maintain things have changed now that specific digital files are sold via the internet. To my way of thinking you own that file, and can trade it. By trading I mean you register the file with the service, guaranteeing yourself as legal owner of the file. You offer it up for 1 on 1 trade. Once the trade is complete, the original file is deleted. You can also provide the file up for streaming to a media player, just to prove the file is good.
You would have to have financial backing for this last one, because it would of course be challenged in court.
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So whataya think? Would this work?