Sunday, February 19, 2006

Blogging My Bookmarks # 2 -- Weedshare.com

Another site that I always have a lot of with when I rediscover it in my bookmarks is Weedshare.com (settle down, it's not what you think). Weedshare is about music. And file-sharing.

Basically, 'weedified' songs are WMA (Windows Media Audio) files with a special license that let's you play each song 3 times for free. If you want to play it more, you buy it (all the songs I've seen cost around $1).

Then you can share it with your friends, put a link on your website, on file-sharing networks or whatever. If somebody buys one of your shared files, you get 20% of the sale price. And if they share it with somebody who ends up buying it, they get 20% and you get 10%. And the next level of sharing gets you 5%.

Oh, and they put $5 in your accout to get you started, so you can get your first 4 or 5 songs for free.

So you get to listen to some cool music from musicians you may not have heard of (although they've got some famous ones, too). You get to share that cool music so that other people can discover these artists, too. You share files and help musicians make a few bucks. And you just might end up making a few bucks, too. How cool is that?