Mercora - New Radio P2P Network 113
jtids writes "The maker of P2P Client, Shareaza, is working
on a new Radio P2P project called Mercora.
This network gives users the ability legally webcast
music to other users on the network. Users can also share images, send instant
messages, and join groups where they can participate in forums and chatrooms.
Although the program itself is still in beta, the project looks promising."
legally? (Score:5, Insightful)
What about royalties? (Score:4, Insightful)
Legal ? (Score:4, Insightful)
legality is based on country of origin and content broadcasted, not the technology
Howard Stern (Score:3, Insightful)
Hmmm (Score:3, Insightful)
And if it catches on there will likely be a patch so save the streams... bringing on a lawsuit or continuos updates/kracks.
A quick question (Score:5, Insightful)
I remember that webcast sites (in essence indexes to internet radio stations) were attacked by the BIG R sometime back...anybody have an update on that?
It seems streaming MP3/RealAudio(lower quality ofcourse) would be the next way to share music, what with Kazaa etal becoming extinct. Ofcourse, Bittorrent, and these webcast stations have the same problem - they need to have an index page to publicize the tracker/links.
Wonder how long this will last.... (Score:4, Insightful)
You share pictures on Mercora right from your local directory on your computer. You "tell" the Mercora client about which pictures you want to share and with whom (people on your friends list, etc.) and those pictures can then be viewed by those people when you are both online on the Internet. People who have the permission to view your pictures will also have the ability to download those pictures.
Hmmm...look--somene is sharing Harry_Potter_the_Everlasting_MoneyMill.jpg.
This should be interesting.
Re:Excellent (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:bandwidth vs quality? (Score:3, Insightful)
The Most Important Question! (Score:4, Insightful)
What's Needed for Licensed Broadcasters... (Score:3, Insightful)
What's needed is something like Shoutcast which provides a professional means of distribution, but built on a P2P architecture. To my knowledge that simply doesn't exist, but I have my fingers crossed. As a new webcaster who sees his listenership growing week after week, there may come a time when I can no longer afford to be popular without a REAL P2P webcast solution.
-pjc
Re:In other words... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:How these people get money? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:and the difference to the RIAA is? (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe it's because you are an idiot, or maybe you didn't RTFA.
The reason this is legal is because they are licensing the music. For every song that plays, they pay. For example, ASCAP is one of the big licensing groups. To play 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) songs, of which 1/3 are theirs, only costs $40,200 if you use fee schedule C.
The question remains, how do they plan on making money? Do they?
How do they plan to finance the network operation? (Score:3, Insightful)