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« on: August 18, 2010, 06:59:26 AM »

This site is growing fast! There's some really nice game remixes there.

If you're an artist, you can upload your work there.

Not an artist? You can still upload any music you may find to help promote other artists.
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2010, 10:10:44 AM »

Really nice site. We do different things but I don't see why that should keep you from being an affiliate.

A question before I say yes.
 
I see you have a cart and you have an incentive program for users to sign up. $1 towards a music download. Is this real money, are you making money off user submissions?

 If you can become active here with posts and content updates, I'd say yes after a while. I would also like to see how this site progresses.

What do you guys think?
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2010, 08:14:52 PM »

I say no. I'm not a fan of youtubesque social networks like these, which consist only of a frame for other people to upload their work and don't contribute any new material to the community by themselves. I guess it must be really tempting to make one of these pages and let it update itself with user-generated content. If you are succesful, sell stuff and have ads you could make a living off it.

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Not an artist? You can still upload any music you may find to help promote other artists.

Only if they allow you to do so... Don't encourage kids to upload material they haven't made to your site.

Quote from: Terms of Use of the site
... You have full right and power to enter into and perform under these Terms, and have secured all third-party consents, licenses and permissions necessary to enter into and perform under these Terms, The material that you submit to our sites does not contain "samples" of any third party's sound recording or musical composition and will not infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights, rights of publicity or privacy or moral rights...

You dream. Nobody who uploads game music performances or remixes to your site will have any license or permission to do so. Maybe you'll get away with copyright infringement for a while, but if your website is succesful and makes a name you'll eventually begin receiving Cease and Desist letters left and right (since it is profit-oriented, with a shopping cart and all).
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2010, 08:42:16 PM »

I also don't agree with uploading other peoples' work.
To promote other people? I can only see that as being counter productive to the creators.

I also didn't like seeing this on the site:
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So, you have a great tune and want to share it with the world, then you're in the right place. But what if you also want compensation for commercial works? No problem, glad you asked! When you upload a song, you have the option to select "streaming" or "streaming + downloading" (among others). This enables the download button, but you can still set a price!!! In this case you can set the licensing to state "free for non-commercial uses", and set the price to, let's say, $0.99. Now you can share AND get paid at the same time! Smiley Downloaded MP3s have a reference back to this site and the author, so if that MP3 is copied and shared, everyone will know where it came from.
That's all nice that the user knows where the mp3 came from, but it looks like the wrong person is getting paid here. The creator should be paid, not the uploader! I can see a lot of potential problems here.
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2010, 08:53:03 AM »

It's been 4 days with no response. I say no.

Besides there is no telling how much trouble this site will get in by selling other people's work.
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