Swapping Clock Cycles for Free Music?

droopus writes "USA Today is reporting on an innovative business model for the music business. Free music for your spare CPU cycles. Honest Thief says the firm has developed software, to be available in the second quarter of this year, that will enable file-sharing providers to capitalize on the unused CPU cycles of their members. That in turn would allow them to raise money to compensate artists for the use of their material. Honest Thief said the software, known as ThankYou 2.0, enables a peer-to-peer file-sharing client to turn the computers of digital music fans into nodes in a distributed net. By leasing out the processor power on distributed nets to research facilities the firm could generate revenues that would be distributed back to the musicians. Some very smart people have suggested this before, but this seems like the first real implementation. "

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So basically

[Anonymous Coward]

this company is imagining a beowulf cluster of their stuff.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I want to download the oracle program to use on my system but I can't find any binaries our source code for it. Does anybody know where I can get it?

Not only that :)

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Re:Concerns...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd for one like to know what they'd want to use my computer for.

Searching for music pirates, maybe? Oooh, oooh, I think I've found one!

Listen up, fucknut.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's goatse.cx. If you can't even be bothered to give me a proper answer at least spell your damn URIs right.

Re:Already done...?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you are surfing at work, it's a health hazard.

Can I choose which kind of applications to run?

[Anonymous Coward]

In this case, I choose 3D pr0n....

Re:This never seems to work!

[Anonymous Coward]

I am very septical of this ever working.

Yeah, it is crap!