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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. Re:Baby Got DRM by asavage · · Score: 0, Redundant
    from the site: 50% of every sale always goes to the artist or publisher who owns the song.

    The artist will only get 50% if they don't have a lable. Hopefully stuff like this will lead to the end of big record companies.

  2. weed by Tom7 · · Score: 0, Redundant



    LEGALIZE p2p

    hah

  3. Re:People won't pay for DRM in the long run by tepples · · Score: 1, Redundant

    CD audio is not a lossy compression scheme, it's a way of storing samples.

    What about collapsing to mono, downsampling to 8 kHz, and dithering to 8 bits? Would you call that another "way of storing samples"?

  4. Re:I'm getting high by flewp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But do you like big butts? And if so, are you capable of lying?

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  5. Re:Wow by Thing+1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ha! Well, it makes perfect sense to use weed to distribute; I mean after all, that's what most musicians use to create music.

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