It's a very good idea, very chaordic. You just need to start spreading it.
1. think up neat new concept that would work if a significant segment of the population used it 2. put up a web page to explain it 3. get all your friends to submit it to slashdot. 4. survive the slashdotage 5. uh, profit ; from living in a better less coercive world. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Tim Howe wrote: > I've been kicking around this thought I've been having today and I thought I would >throw it out here for peer review... > > It seems to me that when it comes to p2p networks, and the problems file sharing is >having with the RIAA, the entire landscape of the argument could be changed in the >favor of the sharers fairly easily. > > Basically what I am proposing is that file sharers use the network to spread >exposure for small, unknown artists. These artists would then, in theory, become >much more widely known. Perhaps even extremely well known. This popularity should >equal success for them. If the P2P networks are anywhere near the powerful forces >that they are made out to be, this should be very possible. We would then have a >number of artists who owe their fame to P2P networks. This would eliminate (or at >least steal the thunder from) the arguments that P2P hurts artists. At the same >time, ready-made spokespersons would have been created... I also believe our pop >culture would change for the better, but that's just me. > > I think it would kind of work like this: > > First, buy a CD from a local band or artists and rip into oggs. You have just >started the trend by buying that artist a meal. =] > > Then (and this needs to be a standard), name the file as you normally would, but >include some sort of universal marker designating it as a small, local artist (local >for someone anyway). For example localA-Plaid_Toungued_Devils-Lucy.ogg. > > Then, a small percentage of people need to search for "localA". Download and >listen. If it's good, consider getting the CD of an unknown instead of M&M next time >you get the urge to buy some music. You'll probably have to buy it online, but hey, >you already know how to use the internet, right? > > If this started as a trend, one that got press, would it have a significantly >possitive result? I don't know, I'm asking. > > --TimH > > -- > feelin' hella good, so let's just keep on hackin' > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
