Weed music distribution service

The [...] music distribution service, introduced by Shared Media Licensing in 2003, combines aspects of peer-to-peer filesharing and multi-level marketing in order to maximize the distribution of copyrighted music while at the same time Providing income to the music's copyright holders.

[...] files are in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format and are restricted by digital rights management (DRM). They can be freely shared on the internet. People on a supported operating system can play a [...] file three times for free using any WMA player. After that, they need to use the [...] software to purchase the file, which gives them the right to play it as often as they want. If they then share the original DRM-restricted file with others, they earn a percentage of the purchase price paid by 3 Generations of their "downstream". 50% of the purchase price goes to the copyright owner, 20% goes to the person that gave the file to the purchaser, 10% to that person's supplier and 5% to the person that supplied the supplier. The [...] service receives the remaining 15%.

A new release of Microsoft Windows Media Player, version 11, is no longer compatible with the [...] service.

External links

• The software and a number of [...] files can be downloaded from http://www.weedshare.com