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Every time I listen to web3 proponents explain how attaching smart contracts to things like music would work it just sounds like an exhausting nightmare.
by chrisbrandow 5y ago
Every time I listen to web3 proponents explain how attaching smart contracts to things like music would work it just sounds like an exhausting nightmare.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoTrading songs on the blockchain sounds like a reasonable idea until you realize any MP3 player that would enforce ownership needs DRM now, which it must either enforce by downloading the blockchain periodically, or periodically talking to some untrustworthy music-industry server that purports to interpret the blockchain but could shut down instead.
- coffeefirst 5y agoYes, this is a terrible idea. I only recently escaped the last of the FairPlay DRM.
- 21723 5y agoMusic and the arts are where I get worried, because I've seen a lot of good people get involved in NFTs. The regime we had beforehand wasn't working. Spotify royalties were pathetic. The interest in Web3, among artists, comes more from fear for the future than techie opportunism.
- falcolas 5y agoSpotify royalties are pathetic because people don’t want to pay very much for music. Even without all the shitty middlemen taking huge slices of the pie, I’m paying less than $4 (family account) to play thousands of songs from hundreds of artists