I commend your generosity! I would like my music to be as free as possible but to retain some control over who gets to make money from it and how. If another poor artist wanted to use something in a sample or piece of video or performance art I'd be inclined to let them use it for free or cheap but if a powerful and exploitative company wanted to use it I would want to extract a price from them or deny it's use if I didn't like what they did.
Nothing is released yet. I would be happy for people to download my music to listen to without restrictions, which is why I'm looking into making it available as torrents.
Will do 👌 I'm not familiar with websites to upload to - the only experience I have so far is searching for files within Qbittorrent, which I believe is using search plugins... How can I find these sites? Thanks
I understand the concept of sharing 'peer-to peer', how a VPN works (and I use one) and I regularly use Qbittorrent to download files. I understand that in this context piracy is contravening an intellectual property license. That's it! I don't know how to distribute files using the technology.
Thanks 👍 I already use QBittorrent for downloading so I will look at that. What does it mean to 'seed' a file? And would the QBittorrent application need to be open constantly for this to work? If so, I may see about installing it on a VPS instead.
Yes, I've been looking at licensing today too. I think I will use the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. If I'm correct this would allow free sharing between listeners and adaptation for creative use with attribution, while preserving my ability to charge for commercial use.
I can't comment on Stalwart but if you're looking for something reliable and easy to install on a VPS I recommend YUNOhost, which is a FOSS server OS that has email out of the box.
I installed Debian on a friend's Acer Chromebook 314 using mtchromebox and it's good. Also check out the Starlite 2-in-1 from Starlabs or maybe their N200 model Starbook.
You're 100% right about that. I've never ran out of nice posts to look at on Pixelfed. I think the medium & format is a lot less addictive and a lot more relaxing/positive, which might help to explain it.
I commend your generosity! I would like my music to be as free as possible but to retain some control over who gets to make money from it and how. If another poor artist wanted to use something in a sample or piece of video or performance art I'd be inclined to let them use it for free or cheap but if a powerful and exploitative company wanted to use it I would want to extract a price from them or deny it's use if I didn't like what they did.