Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music

An anonymous reader writes "Hip-hop musician Sir Mix-A-Lot has made his new CD Daddy's Home available for download using Weed technology. Weed is a relatively new file sharing system based principles of shareware and referrals. You download the DRM WMA weed file and can listen to it 3 times on any computer before deciding to purchase it or not. If you do purchase it (at a price set by the artist), you will receive referral fees (20%, 10%, 5%) for the next 3 generations of people that purchase your copy. The artist always receives 50% of the price. Certainly an interesting approach to distributing music in a world of p2p and iTunes."

Comments

original hip hop ?

[Anonymous Coward]

hip hop has always been based on other peoples beats and breaks , look at poof daddy ? 50 cent , all ripping off 1970's funk and soul

and mixalot wants paying ? just to rip off other peoples music ?
hahah funny how things go

Multi-Level_marketing for music

[Black Art]

The music industry is now proving just how evil they are. Now they are trying to use Multi-Level-Marketing mixed with DRM to sell product. They may call it something else, but anything that uses a downline structure to sell anything is MLM.

This is similar to what Amway, NSA water softeners and a bunch of other companies do to sell product.

It is an interesting scam. Not only do they get you to do the selling for them, but they also get to keep lists of who is selling their music and where they live.

This is one of those times when I am glad I am on an unsupported platform for the technology.