Sharing of music is a deeply rooted human desire. This desire should be reflected in the personal computer.
A group of really smart, thoughtful technologists spent a lot of nights and weekends over the past couple of years conceiving of a secure, scalable system that facilitates voluntary payments of digital works. We called it Tipster.
The best starting point is here:
http://tipster.weblogs.com/
Some of the latest thinking can be found here:
http://wmf.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$6155?mode=day
A group of artists and/or a platform vendor could bring it to market with a modest $250K (US) investment.
It's my dream to see this realized.
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