Delete downloads, earn money
p2pnet.net news:- P2p aficionado Serguei Osokine has a fascinating idea on how to develop income from Gnutella.
A p2p researcher and developer with a special interest in large, fully decentralized p2p networks, Osokine says he’s been involved with Gnutella for almost as long as it’s existed, focusing primarily on algorithms that deal with scalability issues in large networks.
Now, “I’ve got an idea,” he says, only partially tongue-in-cheek.
“There’s a special licensed client and every time you use it to download a song from Gnutella, you pay 99 cents to the service. But when you erase the song from your hard drive with the same application, you get a 95-cent refund.”
It’d be perfectly legal, and, “with one billion songs traded per month, such a revenue stream comes to half a billion a year,” he observes.
A billion a month? A new IDC white paper says it’s a billion a day, and if that’s the case …
Anyway, “Here we’d have per-track pricing,” Osokine continues. “The price of a track is 99 cents, and generally everything is cool and legal. Plus we have an income stream from the song depreciation (from the return price difference 
.”
Moreover, he points out, there’s even a way to save users from even having to fork out the $1 per song.
How? The money could be ‘virtually’ provided as a ‘loan’ by the service provider.
“The return price differential will have to service this $250 debt, for the average number of tracks per user, but that’s peanuts,” he says, “and if this isn’t good enough, varying the return price would allow you to find the price optimum without having a single lawyer involved. Wouldn’t that be great?”
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Stay tuned.
Also See:
IDC white paper – 1 billion songs a DAY shared online, March 8, 2007
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March 30th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
If the song sucked and I deleted it, shouldn’t I get a full refund? I’m not going to throw money away on stuff that can possibly suck, whether it is 5 cents or any other sum of money. If I download a song and it is good, I’ll download more from the artist, buy a CD and got to a show if the rest of their stuff is up to snuff.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I don’t see how this will stop people from just using other clients. Blanket licensing is a much more effective solution than this, as it would encompass all clients and all networks, although I appreciate that this guy is at least not in the single minded state that plagues the likes of most DRM’d stores.