On Saturday 10 September 2005 22:03, John Mulholland wrote: > 1. Should lists of freely available content be covered by a licence? > 2. Should access to a list, or the items within it, be charged for? > 3. How about if the charge was shown with the the percentage donated > directly to the artist? > 4. Could such a payment gateway be built using open source tools, and > made open and secure? > 5. Should access constitute right to copy, and is there any need for DRM > in this system? Or in any other? > > Big questions I know, but they are worth considering, particularly if > you are looking to make a living out of Linux and music. Hope that helps Good points, John. This could turn out to be quite a fruitful discussion after all! This is good potential WIKI material. [He said. ;]. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
