Already last month Gary L. Murphy detailed his outline for a new way to approach the distribution of music, and making the likes of the RIAA superfluous and worthless. Read his proposals in How to slay the RIAA, and The Subscriber Mechanism. All related entries to this are aggregated as well.
It is a good example I think of how ideas put forward in blogs can be turned into action. So I decided to put my money where my mouth is.
Thanks for the kind words and support, but just a note to the readership to dissuade any financial contributions to this project for just a short while — we’re in limbo for a while during the sorting out of our bankruptcy; the social software R&D for this project cost a bit more than the contributions would cover 😉