Weed pays you to share music files

Here’s an interesting business model for music distribution: weedshare. Users distribute tracks through a system similar to P2P. The big difference, however, is that the tracks are officially licensed from the artists. You pay to download a track but you also get a cut of the profit if someone else buys it through you.

Two things bother me: It sounds curiously similar to a pyramid scheme and it relies on Microsoft DRM.

And, love it or hate it, the consumer is heading for control of the market now, not the supplier, which makes me think it’s a bit late for this kind of venture.