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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."
Ain't that what the RIAA uses too? ;)
Download rates... really fast! It's great!
I like DRM and I cannot lie
You other brothers cant deny
When a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And p2p in yo face
You get sprung
Wanna pull out ya gun
Cuz the RIAA aint tough
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I can't remember the last time a slashdot title made me do a triple-take. Haha.
Have to admit I was a little disappointed as I read on.
why? forty-two.
We had weed back in my day, but I had to *pay* for it. None of this referral paybacks. :)
Even more interesting name. I can see the advertisements now. "Weed, the legal alternative to KaZaA"
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pothead DLing weed.
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. . . isn't the first time always free?? ;-)
In this case it's the first 3 times, but close enough
- "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
For the Weed DRM?
Now he just has to find somebody who would actually want his music, or shall I say, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it.
I think his best bet to sell music would be inventing a time machine taking him back to the early 1990s.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
So weed has been making music-sharing happen for several decades, at least. Hmph. Internet.
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(red team go, red team go)
My fri/sat night fun job is doorman for a SJ karaoke bar...
I swear to god if I hear that song being sung by a group of sorority girls screaming into the mics at the top of their lungs one more time i'm going to shoot myself.
Its technically not a Ponzi Scheme. Its more like the red-headed step child of an iPod and Amway.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
You download the DRM WMA weed file
No, no I don't.
You can't take the sky from me...
Both products become expensive because of government regulations. To protect the profitability of both products, distributors employ tactics typical of criminal organizations. Both products derive their power from the fear of the people who would have a tendency to abuse it, or those that see a threat to other more acceptable means of domination.
And finally, the real danger appears not because of the product itself, but because of the additives that must be used in the mass market to maximize and protect profit margins. The additives create unknown levels of toxicity to your body and your mind.
Of course, manufactured weed and manufactured music are both bad for you, and I would suggest that squirrels and humans avoid their consumption.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
...but then I got high.
$4.99..................Weed
Deja Vu man. This will be like when I called the hints line at Virgin Interactive. Took forever to explain to my parents that $3.99 to a 900 line called Virgin Entertainment was not a phone sex line.
Honestly though, I wonder if anyone has though about what a tough sell this will be, not to the target demographic, teenagers (they'll love it), but the source of their disposable income, their very uncool parents.
My crystal ball keeps showing me a Chevy Nova.
I'm going to get Kevin Bacon to buy a track. I'll never have to work again.
Sir Mix-a-lot is taking some lessons from Cypress Hill...
Heh... They've been using weed to sell their music for years.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
"...and this is your music on DRM. Any questions?"
Now there's a world class oxymoron if ever there was one.
Which would you pick?
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