News File Sharing Growing Like a Weed

According to Wired, a company is trying to use the power of P2P to promote copyrighted digital content - rather than stamp it out like the RIAA (and more recently the BPI and the MPAA) have been doing:

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.

Interesting idea. More on it here

 

One more question, song quality? That's all that's missing...

 

I'm going to run a beta program where I work using p2p software internally. Being a hospital, we have thousands of policies and procedures for various departments in addition to hospital wide procedures. Up to now we've been using Microsoft Index Server to index, catagorize and search against, but it's showing limitations so I want to try and use p2p technology to replace Index Server.

 

Tell that to all those "P2P Is Evil" people, would you? It's good to see something which is inarguably good showing up using P2P.

 

very cool stuff. this is progress.