Thing is, most people want to listen to copyrighted music. Federating copyrighted music is a surefire lawsuit for anyone who hosts that federated service.
And you don’t need federation for acquiring music files. Torrents are better for resilience than federation, since they form a distributed network, not just a decentralized network.
There is a piece of software that implements federation for music, called Funkwhale.
This is their flagship instance: https://open.audio
That flagship instance hosts basically only Creative Commons music and podcasts, due to aforementioned problem.
The other instances I’ve seen federating with it, were generally self-hosted by musicians or podcasters to share their own work.
I imagine, if an instance started federating copyrighted music (which wasn’t separately licensed by the artist either), it would need to be defederated by everyone else in the network ASAP, to avoid lawsuits.
Alright, yeah. I do even feel the same about copyrighted music. But lots of people want to listen to their favorite artists and will accept rather much pain to do so…
Thing is, most people want to listen to copyrighted music. Federating copyrighted music is a surefire lawsuit for anyone who hosts that federated service.
And you don’t need federation for acquiring music files. Torrents are better for resilience than federation, since they form a distributed network, not just a decentralized network.
There is a piece of software that implements federation for music, called Funkwhale.
This is their flagship instance: https://open.audio
That flagship instance hosts basically only Creative Commons music and podcasts, due to aforementioned problem.
The other instances I’ve seen federating with it, were generally self-hosted by musicians or podcasters to share their own work.
I imagine, if an instance started federating copyrighted music (which wasn’t separately licensed by the artist either), it would need to be defederated by everyone else in the network ASAP, to avoid lawsuits.
Right. In another comment i wondered how funkwhale was handling copyright.
Personally, I gave up on copyrighted music. I just don’t care, there is so much freely traded music out there it just doesn’t matter to me.
But then again 99 percent of music on my server is live so I know I am the oddball
Alright, yeah. I do even feel the same about copyrighted music. But lots of people want to listen to their favorite artists and will accept rather much pain to do so…