I’m all about this. It seems like you’ve just perfectly described the way forward in a space that has been spinning it’s weals. I’ve watched the methods that Bandcamp has used and I see Metalable as similar but even beyond the music world’s realm.
Appreciate that, Mark, especially from you, who I know has thought about all this so much and in similar ways. And yes, *love* Bandcamp. Definite inspiration.
Yancey, is the basic idea that when a song, book, or video is sold as a record, then that same digital content is never sold in other forms.
Or typically to we expect that one can one still (legally) gain access to the material via other means as well? e. g. can I listen to it on spotify too?
Big money drives these other channels, so it will be hard to ignore them. Maybe this is like Patreon, where folks pay for content that often others can access w/o paying.
Hey Dan, appreciate the question. It's going to be a mix of the two. The record format will let creators make a collectible edition of a work, independent of whether the work is free or accessible elsewhere. But because the record can contain not just one work, but an inventory of works, you could imagine an album that's free to stream on Spotify, but whose onchain record contains additional information, demos, or tracks. Or imagine a YouTube video free for anyone to watch but that superfans can collect an edition of and get a Zoom call with the creator as collectors later on. Records will be able to support these use cases and many iterations and permutations in between.
I’m all about this. It seems like you’ve just perfectly described the way forward in a space that has been spinning it’s weals. I’ve watched the methods that Bandcamp has used and I see Metalable as similar but even beyond the music world’s realm.
Appreciate that, Mark, especially from you, who I know has thought about all this so much and in similar ways. And yes, *love* Bandcamp. Definite inspiration.
Yancey, is the basic idea that when a song, book, or video is sold as a record, then that same digital content is never sold in other forms.
Or typically to we expect that one can one still (legally) gain access to the material via other means as well? e. g. can I listen to it on spotify too?
Big money drives these other channels, so it will be hard to ignore them. Maybe this is like Patreon, where folks pay for content that often others can access w/o paying.
Hey Dan, appreciate the question. It's going to be a mix of the two. The record format will let creators make a collectible edition of a work, independent of whether the work is free or accessible elsewhere. But because the record can contain not just one work, but an inventory of works, you could imagine an album that's free to stream on Spotify, but whose onchain record contains additional information, demos, or tracks. Or imagine a YouTube video free for anyone to watch but that superfans can collect an edition of and get a Zoom call with the creator as collectors later on. Records will be able to support these use cases and many iterations and permutations in between.