Comments on: Entrepreneurs Plan To Legalize and Monetize Illegal Music

By: crashsuit

crashsuit — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:07:00 +0000

Yes, I agree. We need to come up with newer, better ways of crapping on awful ideas.

By: Ven

Ven — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:08:00 +0000

I think we are lacking a decent platform for indie music still. It’s been done dozens of times, but it hasn’t been done right. It needs to be designed as a place to go for consumers, not a platform for indie artists to pedal themselves.

And as counter-productive as it may seem, the platform needs to exclude RIAA and other artists who are not okay with a free or optional-pay download service.

By: Ven

Ven — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:02:00 +0000

I would consider it highly likely that they would turn to companies and attempt to get this technology embedded in popular music players. I can’t think of a single scenario where someone would choose to take the time to install something that is basically adware.

By: Xaxatat

Xaxatat — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:02:00 +0000

Further thoughts. Have Google et al buy the entire music industry and get rid of the problem in one fell swoop.

By: pong

pong — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:02:00 +0000

Don’t know if it would actually work. But can you imagine a system where all the music we download from cyberlockers and the pirate bay gives money to the musicians simply through the ads on the side? We still get free music, the musicians get paid, and only the labels get left out. Seems too pie in the sky for me to seem realistic, but it would be nice.

By: pong

pong — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:02:00 +0000

By: john

john — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:56:00 +0000

Good idea, not gonna work.

Support the artists you like by donating, buying their CDs (it doesn’t matter if you’ve already downloaded it), going to see them live and buying the merch.

Anything else is just parasitic.

Fuck’ em.

By: Joska

Joska — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:17:00 +0000

Screw the big labels, they should negotiate with the artists themselvs and then sending the ad revenue directly to them instead of the parasites!

By: Ah-ha-ha-ha

Ah-ha-ha-ha — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Questions that occur.

1. How does it differentiate between albums legally brought on CD/Tape/Vinyl then ripped and any tracks which are downloaded? Do you have to mark them one by one?
I’ll be damned if I want to listen to ads on a CD I paid £20 for 15 years ago.

2. How accurate is the detection? If it’s off, say, freedb then it will have many omissions and mix ups.
If it’s done by tag then it will either easy to avoid the ads (if this system ever became compulsory) by retagging.

3. By tagging a poor artist could possibly tag, say, a new album by Madonna with his name in the relevant field, torrent it and most people might alter the tags, but a few wouldn’t and he’d be stealing profits for another. Would this be possible?

4. How many ads would you have to listen to for each illegally downloaded track? 1 every time, forever? 10 ever and it’s yours? How much advertising gets you the 80p required to own the track without being brain raped by ads?

5. Advertising, products and companies rise and fall over time except the largest, would an MP3 player with this on require updating on a monthly basis so you get new Ads as the businesses contracts changed? Would the hardware stop working if you didn’t update the device for a year? (yes not everyone has ADD when it comes to what’s on their players…)

6. What happens if you play a track by an artist signed to a label which isn’t participating in this idea? Would the player/software detect this? Would by law the business running the scheme be obliged to report you, as I’m guess it’s criminal to not report a known crime (felony in the US?).

7. Will companies sign up to the scheme as it will be seen possibly as condoning piracy to start with?