The recommendation engine could be a totally centrally-run component. There's nothing to gain by decentralizing this functionality.
-david Nazareno Andrade wrote: > Hi there, > > I guess one other part missing in the idea of a freedora-like service is > how to run the recommendation algorithm so that the radio has an > interesting program. That needs historical data from as many users as > possible and a lot of computation. > > This is not necessarily and impediment, but quite a challenge. > > best, > nazareno > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:35 AM, David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com > <mailto:dbarr...@quinthar.com>> wrote: > > Daniel S. Menasche wrote: > >>> Would there be a way to legally implement Freedora? > >> History has shown the only way to succeed with any innovative music > >> product is to build it first and deal with the legal issues > later. For > >> example, if this were built in a fashion that made it incredibly > easy to > >> "tip" music you like, and if it grows fast enough and enough > people do > >> it, its legality won't matter. But if you wait to get > everything lined > >> up and signed in triplicate from the labels up front, it'll > never happen. > > > > The idea of "tipping" is interesting. But who would share their > credit > > card numbers in a system that is disseminating copyrighted content? > > That is tricky. > > The tipping needn't be secret or decentralized; it can happen totally in > the clear using a standard, centralized, completely legal and legit web > service. There's no reason to decentralize this part. > > The only part that requires decentralization is the transport layer. > > > >>> For instance, what if the files were automatically encrypted > while being > >>> downloaded, and could be streamed only by a special player, in > agreement > >>> with the music companies? The special player could, for instance, > >>> download commercials from time to time? > >> Nothing that requires the sign off of the record companies has ever > >> succeeded. I wouldn't recommend trying to break new ground there. > > > > Well, Pandora, SpotFree and others succeeded! > > Hah, no, success is profitability or selling to a bigger sucker. > Neither of those have happened, and so far as I can tell, neither will > -- the economics of cheap/ad-supported webcasting are simply impossible, > and nobody who's tried has ever demonstrated otherwise. Bleeding > through investor money at a frantic pace is not success; it's just > slow-motion failure. > > -david > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com <mailto:p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com> > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
