Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 10 January 2004
Hip-hop musician Sir Mix-A-Lot has made his new CD Daddy's Home available for download using Weed technology. Weed is a relatively new file sharing system based principles of shareware and referrals. You download the DRM WMA weed file and can listen to it 3 times on any computer before deciding to purchase it or not. If you do purchase it (at a price set by the artist), you will receive referral fees (20%, 10%, 5%) for the next 3 generations of people that purchase your copy. The artist always receives 50% of the price. Certainly an interesting approach to distributing music in a world of p2p and iTunes.
I don't understand why anybody would use DRM at all. One could play the file once and record it at the same time (what most audio editors can), or burn it on CD and rip it afterwards (as far as I know, WMP9 burns DRM files).