Oh well, they’ll be back in the next copyright thread pretending this never happened and that those of us who oppose rent-seeking monopolies are teh evil.

But hey, they have kids to feed and yacht payments to make too. Think of the lawyers!

 Hi. The reason for starting with FB is two-fold: many services in the music infrastructure (eg soundcloud, pandpage, …) use it and most of the artists we have talked to are fine with it as they already have a presence there. We will open more ways for loggin in (twitter, google, soundcloud, …), but as there are tons of stuff on our todo -list, we must prioritise.
- Perttu

But mostly it’s probably the prospect of instant wealth, illusory as it is, that an entire industry of vampiric sycophants exists to draw one towards when young, vulnerable, and naive.

That said wouldn’t your solution require the use of Mozilla?

In many cases it would be ‘Cut them out and keep all the money you don’t make’.

Same goes for people who hate digital publishers. People seem to think that it’s as easy as not putting your book on Anazin and therefore 100% profit! Sure, 100% profit of nothing because nobody knows your book exists.

Of course there are exceptions, and really people need to be stepping up to provide more community focussed marketplaces. But running a market place is expensive, so it’s admittedly not all that easy to do.

Please excuse the iPhone typos.

Its a complex game is piracy, far more complex than the law (and enforcement) allows.

you’d think somebody trying to ditch the labels wouldn’t hand their keys to FB… there is OAuth & Mozilla BrowserID if you don’t want to roll your own authentication.

While they might have purchased the best justice their money can buy, they still need to be held to what was ordered.  As they have announced they are going to disregard the courts instructions, they need to be hauled into court for fraud and misappropriation of funds.  There should be an audit conducted on their books looking at other “wins” where money was ordered to be paid to the rightsholders/artists that was instead redirected into the coffers of a cartel creation.

Unless of course the court wants to remove any doubt that there is a high court/low court standard and it is controlled by who has the money not the letter of the law.

Artists posts music, books on sites, tied to a clearing house for the points–for legal download. You purchase or trade points, to DL media.
Sites can get points by linking to DL sites. Users can get points by recommending or making their own ‘respect’ tastes, according to the users own ‘station’.  Becoming their own broadcast radio station. Each hit, gives the station points.

Other media like facebook..etc. become a jump for bling for each jump. 
Users become the promoters getting ‘points’ for views and respect for promoting artists.
The artist can cash in via a clearing house for those that purchase ‘points’ to translate points to dollars–via the clearing house for those that purchase points with hard cash.
Or buy selling specialized album art, signed copies–in a one to many method.

The current “Rack Jobber” Jukebox  system is way broken for music. Only the top ten get bucks, and the lesser ones get jack.