Truce Offered Between Record Labels And File Sharers By Independent Artist Using New Technology.

Fancy Pants Recording artist Greener offers rewards to their fans that share their songs by using a new file sharing technology called Weed.

WANTAGH, NY (PRWEB) December 16, 2003 --Fancy Pants Recording artist Greener offers rewards to their fans that share their songs by using a new file sharing technology called Weed.

Weed is an innovative and simple application that utilizes Microsofts® Digital Rights Management (DRM) to secure digital content while rewarding music fans for sharing.

Weed files can be played three times for free on any PC. After three free plays, greeners fans are asked to pay for the file. Any current Windows Media-compatible player software can be used to play the file. The Weed software is used to purchase it.

Once a Weed file is purchased, greeners fans are free to play it all they want on up to three PCs. They can also burn the Weed files they buy to CD and play them on their stereo, or transfer them to portable devices, like the Creative Labs® Nomad, the RIO® S10, or any current Windows CE® PDA.

The Weed files can be shared with anyone greeners fans like, as long as the files remain in their original form as Windows Media files.

If someone a Greener fan shares a file with purchases that file, they'll earn a payment for helping to distribute it.

Greener will receive 50% of each sale, and the rest goes to those who helped distribute the file. The first person gets 20%, the person who shares the file with the first person gets 10%, and the third person that shares the file with the second person gets 5% of the sale price. Weed collects 15%.

When we released our CD, ‘Weekend Thriller, we were looking for a way to distribute our music to as many people as possible but also to sell some of it along the way. With the way the [music] industry currently is it seemed to be a daunting task but I think since Weeds system rewards those that respect artist rights while giving the artist their fair share, this new way of distribution will work.” - Greeners Jason Cohen

The perplexing problem of illegal file sharing has put Major Record Labels and the RIAA at odds with music fans for the last few years. Weeds software may hold the solution by allowing artists like Greener to reward their fans for respecting their copyrights.

To see the Weed system in action visit Greener at http://www.greenermusic.com/weed. For more information on Weed visit http://www.weedshare.com.
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