There needs to be a self-hosted platform for this hooked up directly to the artist's bank account. It's ridiculous to implement the middle man that is a digita

There needs to be a self-hosted platform for this hooked up directly to the artist's bank account. It's ridiculous to implement the middle man that is a digital program instead of a retarded record exec. Zed Shaw has talked about this a tiny bit. I've thought about taking over the defunct open source OpenTape project which was born out of Muxtape's demise. Add in a simple payment engine for songs (hook up to your paypal, bank account via amazon,etc.), along with making the flash widget nicer with links to download. Make it completely open source. If an artist doesn't want to deal with the tech, charge for the self hosted version, and let them keep 100% of revenues after payment processing.