…how exactly fucked the media conglomerates are. To be more specific, the RIAA and the MPAA’s of the world who are still desperately attempting to control content in an age where it is beyond anyones control.
The latest brilliant idea? LaLa, a CD trading site that lets you post your wants and haves, matches you up appropriately with other LaLa subscribers, provides postage paid mailers, and lets the USPS do the swapping. It’s like P2P without the digital. The cost? $1.49 per disc that you swap, giving you the ability to trade old music for new at prices that almost rival AllofMP3. For less than $20 a month, you could have more new music than you could comfortably listen to, all DRM free and with the ability to control it as you see fit.
Just another thing that the RIAA can’t stop. Just wait until some rolls this up with some open source social software that allows small groups to do this without the need for postage. How could they respond if Facebook provided this functionality?
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Remind me what would stop someone from sending a burned and making a $1.49 a pop (minus the cost of a CD-R)?
LaLa acts as a reputation intermediary, and insist that each end of the transaction verify that they got what they wanted. Plus, LaLa is collecting the money, NOT the individual.
There is another cool site where you can trade DVD’s for 99 cents, called PeerFlix.