Re: DRM technology and policy
I am not sure the commercial-album-by-major-label business model is really needed any more - perhaps a gig-based income model, plus an extension to the mp3/ogg formats to support a "tip for this song now" button on players, would suffice...
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, David Howe wrote:
I am not sure the commercial-album-by-major-label business model is really needed any more -
Let's face it: isn't.
perhaps a gig-based income model, plus an extension to the mp3/ogg formats to support a "tip for this song now" button on players, would suffice...
Free distribution is a free advertisement for live performers.
The "tip" infrastructure would require establishing some kind of
standards: possibly a digital token, a standardized data block (difitally
signed XML?) with the author contact data. No need for support directly in
the players - it can be easily handled by a standalone application. (Then
you don't have to directly modify all the players, you can have a
commandline "tip
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