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. "

Comments

Re:plain and simple

[dj_paulgibbs]

your forgeting to include electricity and admin costs. My forget(t)ing what? ;)

Re:Clock cycles = Electric Bill

[1000101]

i find that very, very hard to believe. maybe $10 more per month max.

Re:Clock cycles = Electric Bill

[stratjakt]

Pfft. You cant grow pot under incandescent lamps. A setup to personally supply a chronic smoker would be at least a 400 watt HPS lamp.