Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
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Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
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#2How do musicians get paid on this platform?
Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
#3Didn't we do this and wasn't it called Napster?
Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
#4How do musicians get paid on this platform?
I’m guessing when people purchase the music as it’s not a streaming service.
With that said, it appears there is the ability to share music socially - which seems like p2p sharing.
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#5Didn't we do this and wasn't it called Napster?
Yea, imagine what kind of Napster we could build today, with ~20 years advancement in bandwidth and storage. This looks super interesting.
EDIT: Never mind. It's another "pipe curl into bash" type of app, since nobody knows how to package software any more.
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#6Honest question, how is this legal? It looks as if there is the ability to share your music online. Can someone explain the difference between this and say Napster, Limewire, Kaza, etc?
Rather than storing it locally, it’s just online... or am I missing something here?
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#7Honest question, how is this legal? It looks as if there is the ability to share your music online. Can someone explain the difference between this and say Napster, Limewire, Kaza, etc? Rather than storing it locally, it’s just online... or am I missing something here?
There is music you are allowed to share, e.g. music licenced under some Creative Commons licences. It's up to whoever hosts a Funkwhale instance to ensure that it only hosts legal music, I'd assume.
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#8Honest question, how is this legal? It looks as if there is the ability to share your music online. Can someone explain the difference between this and say Napster, Limewire, Kaza, etc? Rather than storing it locally, it’s just online... or am I missing something here?
If it's decentralised, then I guess it doesn't have to be legal...
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#9I know this kind of thing might not be very popular on HN, but I like their anti-meritocracy statement:
Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
#10Honest question, how is this legal? It looks as if there is the ability to share your music online. Can someone explain the difference between this and say Napster, Limewire, Kaza, etc? Rather than storing it locally, it’s just online... or am I missing something here?
From my understanding it's legal for the same reason Apache, nginx, curl, etc. are legal. The software can be used to violate copyright, but that doesn't make the software itself illegal.