Argue the licensing fees per person (use, etc) down to very little:
Okay, so if i have one decoder, i'll have to pay $0.75, correct?
What if i have a multi processor machine? Still only $0.75?
What if the decoder it is multi-threaded to run faster on multi-processor machines?
What if it can decode multiple streams at one (for internet radio applications for instance) (which may involve decoding two or more streams and them mixing between them) ?
What if the machine is a distributed computer?... then for $0.75 anyone could use a thread on this global distributed computer to decode mp3s. But there would only be "one" multi threaded globaly distributed decoder and thus only one $0.75 charge (presumably to whoever decides to set up this distributed decoder)... ever... ? right ?
The distributed decoder need only be in name (and description) different from any other software mp3 decoder.
Each time anyone wants to decode an mp3, it asks the distributed network (or in this case the portion of it running on their computer) to decode the mp3...
1. It need not cost the publisher much to "publish" a [data object] under this protocol, so there would be little need to turn down requests (unless the publisher wished to maintain a certain level of quality in its [published objects]) (most publishers won't publish crap)
2. if (a) place(s) were made available to list works published under this model (sorted into different categories) I think more people would at least consider looking at the products.
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Argue the licensing fees per person (use, etc) down to very little:
... then for $0.75 anyone could use a thread on this global distributed computer to decode mp3s. But there would only be "one" multi threaded globaly distributed decoder and thus only one $0.75 charge (presumably to whoever decides to set up this distributed decoder) ... ever... ? right ?
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Okay, so if i have one decoder, i'll have to pay $0.75, correct?
What if i have a multi processor machine? Still only $0.75?
What if the decoder it is multi-threaded to run faster on multi-processor machines?
What if it can decode multiple streams at one (for internet radio applications for instance) (which may involve decoding two or more streams and them mixing between them) ?
What if the machine is a distributed computer?
The distributed decoder need only be in name (and description) different from any other software mp3 decoder.
Each time anyone wants to decode an mp3, it asks the distributed network (or in this case the portion of it running on their computer) to decode the mp3
1. It need not cost the publisher much to "publish" a [data object] under this protocol, so there would be little need to turn down requests (unless the publisher wished to maintain a certain level of quality in its [published objects]) (most publishers won't publish crap)
2. if (a) place(s) were made available to list works published under this model (sorted into different categories) I think more people would at least consider looking at the products.
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