BronsCon
join:2003-10-24
Cleveland, OH
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1 edit | Filesharing is becoming legal. And quickly.
Perhaps not ALL file sharing services are being used legally and legitimately all the time. But I can guarantee one that is. It is called PeerImpact (currently in beta) and it is actually being promoted by the RIAA itself.
They're currently using a DRM crippled WMA format and selling songs iTunes style, but with a twist, they're using customer bandwidth BitTorrent style, and if your bandwidth is used to transfer a song, you get credit for it toward future downloads.
They're currently working on setting up to allow users to swap their own content, getting movies and other media on their network, and improving the services immensely. They are reading their forums for customer suggestions and implementing them whenever they can, which is extremely wonderful. I can personally attest to the fact that they do this, as two of my suggestions were implemented shortly after they were posted, with replies from a mod and a programmer in the forum i posted them in.
I suggest everyone go check it out, I can't really explain how it works as well as they do, and it really does work the way they say, I've tested it.
As a side not, yes, it is DRM crippled, but it's the loosest DRM I think I've seen anywhere. The only thing I haven't been able to do with it yet is burn the songs to a CD using anything other than WMP but I've played them in everything else and it would be trivial to convert them to another format, thus losing the DRM entirely. |
