http://digitalbazaar.com Collaborative Digital Content Distribution Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 20:55:39 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=260 Bitmunk Website and the PaySwarm software. It has been three months since our last release. This launch has a number of new features that are pretty exciting:

• Green Computing - We have replaced the standard Apache+PHP+Smarty web server stack with the Monarch Web server stack. This has improved performance by 468% and reduced the number of servers we need by a factor of 4. Reducing our carbon footprint by 4x is not only green, but greatly reduces long-term operating and maintenance costs as well.
• Semantic Web - We have published a new set of over 74 million pieces of machine-readable data in our pages, 11 million of which consist of pricing data via the Good Relations Vocabulary. We are using RDFa to publish the data.
• The Experience - Finding and buying what you want is now faster, with less annoying screens in the way between you and your music. The PaySwarm software now supports Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit versions).

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We now support Firefox 3.6.

Only one tab is created for the Bitmunk Personal Edition software. That tab is focused whenever you purchase anything via Bitmunk

Firefox will now auto-discover the page that you use to control your Bitmunk software.

The interface has been made a bit more responsive.

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This work will establish a world-wide, open mechanism for the distribution of digital content via web browsers that not only benefit artists, but fans as well. In short - when a file is traded using Bitmunk 3.2, the artist is paid and the fan is paid. You can legally resell the music you buy via the network and get paid for the bandwidth you contribute to the sale. This is a bold new approach to music distribution. We certainly think it is inevitable that digital content will eventually be distributed in this way. Here's how it works...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:02:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=220 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:41:46 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=171 The Pirate Bay (TPB). Or rather, it was the Pirate Bay until their owners were raided, sued, tried and sentenced earlier this month. The Pirate Bay is the latest link in a long chain of peer-to-peer companies that have met their end at the hands of international copyright law. It is also the target of a post-litigation buy-out attempt by a company who wants to monetize the over 25 million community members of TPB...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:02:10 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=108 went live earlier today is the culmination of over 26 months of development, hundreds of thousands of lines of code writes and re-writes and the dream of a small group of us that are trying to fundamentally change the way people buy and sell digital goods on the Internet. On the surface, Bitmunk looks much like a web-based digital content store specializing in MP3 music sales. People can come to the site and purchase songs and albums for very competitive prices (cheaper than iTunes and Amazon.com). There is, however, a deeper history and a grander goal for Bitmunk...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:23:30 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=54 shopping a new music licensing model around to universities in the United States. Like some before it, this one attempts to address the still rampant music piracy occurring via peer-to-peer networks by enforcing a pseudo-mandatory collective licensing agreement on every student attending a participating university. There were a number of very interesting parts to the proposal that we would like to work on improving with Choruss and any partner universities. There were also a few propositions that we think are harmful to the industry, artists and fans as a whole. It should be no surprise that we think that any sort of mandatory collective licensing is a very bad idea, as is the "covenant not to sue" approach that Choruss is currently pursuing. Voluntary collective licensing, as proposed by organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is not a good alternative either...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:45 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:55:05 +0000 Mike Johnson http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:51:56 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/05/15/blacksburg-barcamp-10/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/05/15/blacksburg-barcamp-10/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 14:42:09 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/05/15/blacksburg-barcamp-10/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/05/15/blacksburg-barcamp-10/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/04/24/dynamic-spectrum-auctions/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/04/24/dynamic-spectrum-auctions/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:31:15 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/04/24/dynamic-spectrum-auctions/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/04/24/dynamic-spectrum-auctions/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:30:34 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:18:18 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/07/04/bitmunk-launches-video/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/07/04/bitmunk-launches-video/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:15:11 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/07/04/bitmunk-launches-video/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/07/04/bitmunk-launches-video/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/03/19/googlefs-for-the-rest-of-us/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/03/19/googlefs-for-the-rest-of-us/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:05 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/03/19/googlefs-for-the-rest-of-us/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/03/19/googlefs-for-the-rest-of-us/feed/ 7 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/26/starfish-coming-soon/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/26/starfish-coming-soon/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:34:12 +0000 Dave Longley http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/26/starfish-coming-soon/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/26/starfish-coming-soon/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/bitmunk-goes-open-source/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/bitmunk-goes-open-source/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:10:24 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/the-first-open-source-p2p-digital-content-transaction-platform-in-history/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/bitmunk-goes-open-source/feed/ 0