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

"Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed, To Distribute Music"

[Anonymous Coward]

Well duh

Reminds me of

[pvt_medic]

those cards you get in the mail how you should send this chain letter to 10 people and mail back 5 dollars to a person on the list. you eventually get like 200 dollars or something like that.

Re:Baby Got DRM

[asavage]

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.

weed

[Tom7]

LEGALIZE p2p

hah

Another pyramid scheme?

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't this just a next gen pyramid scheme?

Not logged cuz I'm a lazy ass.

Re:People won't pay for DRM in the long run

[tepples]

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"?

Re:I'm getting high

[flewp]

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

Re:Wow

[Thing 1]

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