4.08.2007

Today is THE LAST day for Weedshare tune purchases

Unfortunately Weedshare.com has decided to suspend operations April 9, 2007. This was in our opinion the most fantastic digital file distribution system EVER and saying we're disappointed to see it go is the understatement of the year.

It was a fantastic solution to the illegal file sharing that hurts the Artist because music consumers actually were PAID financial incentive to LEGALLY share the file and create new sales for the band(s).

Weedshare provided all newbies a FREE $5.00 to purchase their first Weed files with - GRATIS! There was really NO reason for the fan to NOT buy 5 tunes since the bill was covered by Weed. Interested? You have less than 24 hours to visit the "Download" section of our site to take advantage of this for the last time!

Turns out the new Microsoft Operating System Vista, and Windows Media Player 11, have crippled the Weedhare file purchase process. Although a Weed file plays previews fine, and plays tunes already purchased prior just fine, the process of purchasing new Weed files in WMP 11 creates a problem for which there is no cure... It views the meta data Weed needs to add to the track as if it were a "Tampered" file and refuses to play!

With the inevitible migration to the new OS and player, and with Microsofts blatent back-turning on their partners who utilized the "Play For Sure" DRM technology in favor for their own proprietary scheme (first surprise was how the new Zune didn't do Weed) the eminent demise of the best thing for the digital music sales ever had begun.

This comes about at a time that big labels are trying to monopolize and force-feed your ears what THEY want to cram in them. The new RIAA and CRB arm twisting on capital hill have small webcasters faced with a new retroactive fee structure that will be putting many online radio stations into bankruptcy.

Visit www.ChemistrySetRecords.com often in the following weeks for news on what the next big thing for Indie music.

Click the "News" link to see how you can fight the unfair practices benefiting only the largest five Labels and squeezing out the fantastic talent who will have a hell of a lot harder time being discovered by new potential fans.

Apathy is not where it's at! Act now!

CSR Staff

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

There was a great show on CJSR.com with John Beezer, founder, who said they're looking into everything, non-DRM, new DRM, even Zune still.

Could be 6 weeks for news, 6 months, a year before a new superdistribution system replacing Weedshare is out.

Sounds heavily focused on cross platform compatibility next time
round. Mac, Cellular, mp3, etc.

Anonymous said...

This is along that line

http://digg.com/search?section=news&s=weedshare

Anonymous said...

That's a good update linke AND digg is cool!

Anonymous said...

John Beezer from SML Weedshare posted in the ICP group that it's time to start pulling the Weed tunes menus off artists sites. Although plans are to make a come back it very likely will be DRM Free?

The good thing is that would allow playing on Mac's and Cell's. But how do you run "the store is in the file" without DRM?

So would the whole Weed concept be employed some entirely different way or will the basic benefits of Weed be eliminated along with DRM?