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  1. MojoNation ... Corporate Backup Tool?

    Developers · Programming · · posted by Hemos · from the hives-of-bees-making-honey dept. · 122 comments
    zebziggle writes "I've been watching the Mojo Nation project off and on over the last couple of years. Very cool concept. While taking a look at the site recently. They've morphed into Hive Cache a P2P corporate backup solution. Actually, it sounds like a great way to use those spare gigs on the hd."

  2. Other Online Opportunities for Independent Musicians?

    Ask · Music · · posted by Cliff · from the selling-your-sound-without-selling-your-soul dept. · 8 comments
    Rimbo asks: "MP3.com has recently announced that as of October 1st, artist royalties will be slashed. 1000 listens used to be worth about $30; they will soon be worth $5. Since MP3.com requires that artists pay $19.95 per month just to get the royalties, breaking even -- which used to be easy -- is now impossible for most artists. Most of the artists are now out of what used to be a major source of income. So where can independent artists go now?"

    "A tool like Mojo Nation won't work quite as well, since we rely on the web to do our advertising -- unless a cgi or java front-end exists for it. And other audio hosting sites such as Java Music and Ampcast seem likely to feel the same financial crunch that MP3.com has.

    Much of these recent changes were expected with the Vivendi buy-out. But it's clear that the business model wasn't working, either. MP3.com has to face overhead and has to get its money from somewhere. It can't just serve up MP3's for free to everyone.

    It seems to me that the best way to go would be some method whereby listeners can try music before they pay for it, and when they do pay, can do so conveniently and without having to pay very much. I know that most artists would be able to do very well for themselves with as little as a nickel per download. Would you be willing to pay that much? What would be a convenient way to pay that you would feel is secure and private?"

  3. Forget Napster & Gnutella: Enter Mojo Nation

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the now-here's-an-idea dept. · 227 comments
    burris writes "Salon's Damien Cave writes "Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file trading service on the net." This OpenSource distributed filesystem uses digital cash technology to create a barter economy for idle disk space, bandwidth, and CPU. Now you can get paid for sharing your computer."

  4. Napster Clone With Pay Per Download

    News · Music · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the where's-the-net-tipping-jar dept. · 266 comments
    Judg3 writes " This story over at Wired.Com talks about a new Napster clone with a twist, pay per download. Yep, thats right. MoJoNation offers a "cross between Napster and eBay," says Jim McCoy, the 30-year-old CEO of Autonomous Zone Industries, the makers of Mojo. They want to create the first file-sharing economy of agents, servers, and search engines in which senders and receivers can agree on prices for each transaction and use micropayments to get paid. These payments are called (aptly enough) mojo. Their web page doesnt say much, well ok it says nothing. But theres some activity over at SourceForge. Though not a whole lot." Micropayments are definitely a holy grail for the internet: It could affect web pages too: I'd pay a micro-payment to yank banner ads from websites I frequent. And I'd pay a few cents to download a new track. The last question is how micro is micro enough? A half cent per web page? A Quarter per audio track?