ID: com.au.bittunes
Version: 1.0.5
File Size: 24Mb
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Bittunes Description
The Bittunes Android application demonstrates a new vision for the 'people powered' distribution of music, on a global scale, rewarding users with micro payments in digital currencies like Bitcoin, in direct proportion to their level of assistance in helping distribute digital content to other users.Bittunes aims to be an ‘Independent Digital Music Market’, which means that the bands and songwriters that provide their music to Bittunes, must own the copyright of the music they provide to the network. We allow smaller independent Labels to feature their Artists on Bittunes, but will exclude Major Label Music. This measure is to avoid the kind of copyright ownership issues that forced the closure of many major P2P applications.
This application will allow ‘music makers’ (Artists) to automatically receive royalties in Bitcoin whenever and wherever a music sale takes place. Music Fans that distribute the content also receive royalties immediately, wherever they are on the planet. In this way, music fans can effectively become the new (distributed) distribution channel for independent music, and instead of a music purchase being a ‘sunk-cost’, it in fact becomes an immediate investment, and the more music you buy, (if that music is in demand) the more money you will make.
Technically, as soon as a new buyer of a music track has purchased a song, they themselves become a 'music mover' for that song, and will start generating royalties for themselves, whenever they contribute to another upload of that song to a new buyer.
The Android application available for download here represents the first stage of the Bittunes project. The basic aspects of the 'Independent Digital Music Market' are all in place. There are many collaboration, communication and social features. You can scroll through the 'Overall Top 100' list of Artists, buy songs with Bitcoin and, as more members by those songs, you will earn royalties in Bitcoin.