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Journal HanzoSan's Journal: A solution to the RIAA problem is for us to take their place 13

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The solution for musicians and music fans is for us to become the distributors of music legally.

How?

We replace the RIAA and distribute music via P2P systems.

The solution is a P2P system which intergrates into the web, there also needs to be a payment mechanism, (maybe paypal?)

Users buy credits in this system, credits represent dollars and cents. So how do you get into the system? You buy in by buying music from fans who are already in the system.

Say you are an indie musician, you make a bunch of music and you create a website, you then intergrate this system onto your website, allowing people to download off a certain P2P network via your site, almost like magnet links. The person who downloads from your site pays .50 cent per mp3 download, however the mp3 isnt downloaded from the musicians site, the mp3 is downloaded from the distrinbutor which happens to be a person who previously paid their way into the system by buying an mp3.

So the fans take the place of the RIAA as distributor and take 25 cent of the 50 cent, so the musician gets 25 cent and the fan gets 25cent or 25 credits. When the fan gets 50 credits they can then go buy another song, so its a system which allows you the filesharer to get unlimited access to music (Free Music) because you become distributor, you legally pay the musician for the music so the musician is happy.You may even make a bit of money. Everyone Wins.

Consumer/Downloader --> $ = $ --> Distributor&Creator , Consumers = Distributors & Downloaders. A closed system where we are the distributors, the creators, the owners of the intellectual property, and we get paid while having access to unlimited free music.

You get free music as long as you share. Musicians get paid. New people have to pay their way into the system but once they do, they get free music or money, whichever they choose.

If we can put the RIAA out of business, alot of the famous musicians which everyone likes would agree to such a setup.

What do you think?

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    1. So who pays for recording, production, engineering, and publicity?
    2. What about giving irresponsible P2P users control over what new buyers download? P2P right now has thousands of mislabeled titles -- mainly from ignorance (misspellings, attributing a song to the wrong band, etc) but some probably as pranks. When you pay for the latest Britney Spears and end up with a copy of a Yanni song, how does this get worked out? Britney just got paid for nothing, you've stolen from Yanni, and you still don't have wha

    • The Recording? Computers can do that, let the artists pay. You dont need to spend $100,000 for state of the art recording, most people dont even have speakers capable of reproducing the sound generated.

      You only really need a home studio, it may cost you around $5000.

      2. What about giving irresponsible P2P users control over what new buyers download? P2P right now has thousands of mislabeled titles -- mainly from ignorance (misspellings, attributing a song to the wrong band, etc) but some probably as pr
      • You only really need a home studio, it may cost you around $5000.

        That's really optimistic.

        for 50 cent a song, I think people will take the risk of actually buying music

        Regardless of how cheap any song may be, most people want their music to be glossy and professional. They don't want to listen to a good recording effort put out by some guy in his basement. Believe me, I know :-) [tzo.net]. They're not listening for effort, regardless of the quality of their speakers.

        The RIAA, and the Media in general, is a
        • Regardless of how cheap any song may be, most people want their music to be glossy and professional. They don't want to listen to a good recording effort put out by some guy in his basement. Believe me, I know :-). They're not listening for effort, regardless of the quality of their speakers.

          Britney Spears does use quality recording, but her music sucks.
          You see it all depends on the type of music, for Techno, Hiphop/Rap, and Punk rock no one cares what studio you use because it sounds the same on the che
          • Britney Spears does use quality recording, but her music sucks.


            I agree, but she sells millions and millions in cds/merchandise/events/etc.. Proving that plenty of people like that crap.. Not to mention the MTV/magazines/tv advertising..

            • Thats the RIAA marketing her, it doesnt mean she has enough talent to do this on her own. As a musician she sucks, as a spokesperson for the RIAA shes very useful, shes good looking, she dances ok, and shes polite, perfect RIAA material.

              • it doesnt mean she has enough talent to do this on her own

                Who really does? I mean I wouldn't have heard of a LOT of really good bands if RIAA hadn't promoted them. If you have some good advertising strategy that would work in the real world, that's great.. I'm just saying, as evil and screwed up as RIAA is.. They serve some purpose as far as helping me to find out about some actually decent artists.. Though I must admit, I'm more of an 80s/oldies/classic rock person myself so this isn't going to appl

                • "Who really does? I mean I wouldn't have heard of a LOT of really good bands if RIAA hadn't promoted them."

                  AOL users could NEVER find websites without AOL promoting and giving them links telling them where to go, what to look at etc.

                  If you have some good advertising strategy that would work in the real world, that's great.. I'm just saying, as evil and screwed up as RIAA is.. They serve some purpose as far as helping me to find out about some actually decent artists..

                  You dont need the RIAA, the radio w

                  • AOL users could NEVER find websites without AOL promoting and giving them links telling them where to go, what to look at etc.

                    Oh come on.. Webpages and music are totally different.. If you don't use a search engine to find webpages you're stupid. What's the difference? With a search engine I get a page title, sample, etc,.. I can look at a hundred webpages in a couple minutes to see what I need, I don't want to listen to a hundred songs to find what I like..

                    You dont need the RIAA, the radio wo

  • If you're setting up a system like that I'd like to help in any way I can. I have a little background in HTML and managing PHP/mySQL based systems, and I will be taking a course on Visual Basic .NET this coming school year. I'd like the artists to get paid, and to be able to access music from my computer, without getting sued by the RIAA.

    The only faults I can see have already been mentioned. The quality of the recording will suffer, but with the change in distribution recording studios will probably sta

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