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Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music

Posted by timothy on from the single-entendre dept.

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."

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  1. Weed? by e+r+i+k+0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ain't that what the RIAA uses too? ;)

  2. First Big Butt Post by CptChipJew · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:First Big Butt Post by weeboo0104 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't-want-none unless you got a T-1 hun!

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  3. Weed technology by ZeekWatson · · Score: 5, Funny

    We had weed back in my day, but I had to *pay* for it. None of this referral paybacks. :)

  4. Interesting approach by MikeXpop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even more interesting name. I can see the advertisements now. "Weed, the legal alternative to KaZaA"

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  5. Where's the crack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the Weed DRM?

  6. Re:First Big Butt Post:NO MAKE IT STOP!!! by t0qer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Mini Pyramid Scheme? by t0ny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its technically not a Ponzi Scheme. Its more like the red-headed step child of an iPod and Amway.

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  8. I was going to collect a lot of referral money... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but then I got high.

  9. Poor marketing foresight. by jhobbs · · Score: 5, Funny
    Mastercard - Sept 9 - Oct 8

    $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.

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  10. Looks like by The+Tyro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sir Mix-a-lot is taking some lessons from Cypress Hill...

    Heh... They've been using weed to sell their music for years.

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