RE: Not Fully Convinced On NFTs For Music...Yet!
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Thanks for going into this a lot deeper mate. Really appreciate it, I see now that there's more to it than just a jpeg and understand the creative licence aspect can provide a lot of benefits and the necessary protection for creatives to timestamp their work and copyright it.
People are not legally supposed to redistribute music they purchase from Spotify or Apple Music. You can sue the pants off of them if you catch them doing it
Yeah for sure. I know they aren't legally allowed to redistribute on Spotify etc. I didn't word it rightly at the time. I have seen many websites where people just upload an mp3 of even tunes from little old me which get reported but there's another that pops up. I guess that will never go away in any case with people just copying files. One thing to ask is how can an mp3 that's released as an NFT be protected against someone who can find the source file and download it? Is that possible?
I am an old school person as well and have my old CD collection along with some limited edition mp3 of vinyl releases that weren't available elsewhere. So I love the mission of going back to how it was before and the artist can be creative, take whoever listens to their music on a journey.
I will have a look at Blocktunes as well and test it out as it's all new to me and I'm going through ideas of what I can do.
Do you have any intention of integrating with lightning network/Bitcoin as I gather you can make NFTs on there too?
At this point the only Bitcoin integration is the payments. No lightning yet but looking for a plugin. For now it’s BSC and Hive. Was going to do Polygon but backed off of that for now. It’s enough to teach Hive and BSC.
As far as the file protection, the Page for the NFT would not allow downloading from the page by right clicking. Right clicking is actually deactivated on the media to protect it. You can choose to store the files on our server for faster speeds and protection or on IPFS for decentralization but WAY slower run times.
You might want to contact CoinCorner as they have integrated a plugin to accept payments via lightning which can be added to different products. I'm planning on integrating it to my music site and we've used it on our Bitcoin focused one too. Works well!
Thanks for the info on the file protection, that's good. I remember dsound used IPFS back in the day and had playback issues but I heard you could also access the source file if you knew where to look. I'll register an account on BlockTunes site 😃
It’s really hard to keep people who know how to look to from ripping the file. We have done everything we can to help protect it. It’s the nature of of the public open decentralized beast. You are never going to completely stop theft.
That was one plugin on my radar. Been looking at a couple of others too.