Charlie Tims
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Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
at 11:26am
on Thursday, 24th March 2005
Less a network, more a weed. Weedshare is a new way of getting, distributing and paying for music that supports independent record labels and musicians. It combines all the best elements of file-sharing sites like Kazaa etc and legal download sites like I-Tunes, TuneTribe & Karmadownload. You can listen to tracks hosted on the site up to four times. If you want to buy, you pay a price set by the music maker. 50% of this goes to the musician and 15% to the people at Weedshare. The rest is divided up between people who pass on the weed file. If you forward the file to a friend and they buy the track you recoup 20% of the sale; if they then forward it to someone who also buys it, you get 10% and then if the same happens again you get 5%. It's all made possible by these natty new things called weed files. Bit too complicated for me, but you can read more on wired.
Less a network, more a weed. Weedshare is a new way of getting, distributing and paying for music that supports independent record labels and musicians. It combines all the best elements of file-sharing sites like Kazaa etc and legal download sites like I-Tunes, TuneTribe & Karmadownload. You can listen to tracks hosted on the site up to four times. If you want to buy, you pay a price set by the music maker. 50% of this goes to the musician and 15% to the people at Weedshare. The rest is divided up between people who pass on the weed file. If you forward the file to a friend and they buy the track you recoup 20% of the sale; if they then forward it to someone who also buys it, you get 10% and then if the same happens again you get 5%. It's all made possible by these natty new things called weed files. Bit too complicated for me, but you can read more on wired.
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