Part of the magic of libre.fm is that all of the music can be freely shared without the need for "buy-ins" or legal consultation or "belongs-to" or so forth. Anything that you can stream from libre.fm you should be able to torrent from libre.fm. The only obstacle should be infrastructure.
Am I incorrect? On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 00:49 +0000, Jon Spriggs wrote: > Hi Matija, > > This idea is a really good one, and I'd love to see this working. Like > your description of yourself, I'm not much of a coder (well, at > anything beyond simple > pull-stuff-from-a-database-then-make-it-look-pretty), but I can see > the merits behind it. Because the music doesn't actually belong to > libre.fm, I suspect this is why there may be issues with putting the > download links straight into the API, however, if we could get buy-in > from labels such as Jamendo, then I guess the first thing to do is to > break this into parts. > > 1) Add an extension to the API which provides an index of torrent and > magnet links. This is non-intrusive - it doesn't affect the current > API at all, and is purely an additional function we can call. > > This part is programatic, and should contain no politics > > 2) Ask Jamendo (for example) to make their bittorrent indexes > available to libre.fm - add this data to the existing GNUkebox store > of data about these tracks and albums > > This would require buy-in from Jamendo and the Libre.fm project to > confirm whether they want to progress down this path. > > 3) Amend existing clients to add this functionality (that is, query > the API for bittorrent/magent links; add a button to the client > reflecting this status; on-click, trigger the launch of the bittorrent > client of choice using the link supplied by the API). It should be > noted that this is in-line with StatusNet's reuse of the twitter API, > adding extensions to it reflecting the support provided by the > extended functions of the StatusNet codebase which has had very little > (if no?) detriment to the support for twitter applications. If > Libre.FM clients can be upgraded to permit the integration of several > different bittorrent downloaders, then this can only be positive! :) > > Hope this helps some other people on the project
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