While the music industry attempts to shutter peer-to-peer services in court and in Congress, one company is using P2P networks to promote and pay artists.
Shared Media Licensing, based in Seattle, offers Weed, a software program that allows interested music fans to download a song and play it three times for free. They are prompted to pay for the “Weed file” the fourth time. Songs cost about a dollar and can be burned to an unlimited number of CDs, passed around on file-sharing networks and posted to web pages.
“We’re trying to take the problem of unauthorized music sharing and turn it into an opportunity for everyone to participate in the music business,” said John Beezer, president of Shared Media Licensing. In addition to launching its home website, the company recently joined eBay’s digital music distribution program with its own store.
Musical greetings, Lilian Philips webmistress Sananda Maitreya (one of the
major artists who also uses Weed to spread his music online)
www.SanandaMaitreya.com
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