Wired News: File Sharing Growing Like a Weed: "File Sharing Growing Like a Weed
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While the music industry attempts to shutter peer-to-peer services in court and in Congress, one company is using P2P networks to promote and pay artists.
Shared Media Licensing, based in Seattle, offers Weed, a software program that allows interested music fans to download a song and play it three times for free. They are prompted to pay for the 'Weed file' the fourth time. Songs cost about a dollar and can be burned to an unlimited number of CDs, passed around on file-sharing networks and posted to web pages.
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'We're trying to take the problem of unauthorized music sharing and turn it into an opportunity for everyon"
