Re: [Librefm-discuss] Libre.fm as the central place for obtaining free music

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I think it's a great idea, and not at all because I came up with it.  
The same algorithms that determine similarity between artists, users and 
so on can be applied to torrents for a neverending stream of 
recommendations.

Have you guys written any of those yet?  If not, all you have to do is 
reference each torrent (you can't check magnet links for download quite 
as easily) in a list of files downloaded by (hopefully pseudonymous) 
users, and then determine which torrents are closest by determining the 
modes of preference (the modes of the set of files that all people who 
have downloaded a specific file have also downloaded).  Etc.

On 02/28/2010 05:09 AM, Matija Šuklje wrote:
> Dne nedelja 28. februarja 2010 ob 02:05:09 je Alberto Rodríguez napisal(a):
>    
> > Have you investigated about the legallity of what you are proposing?
> >      
> Since Libre.FM is planned to handle only free (CC and other copyleft) music
> and seems to be very picky about the licenses it allows, I don't see a
> problem.
>
> I'll double-check with my professor[1] just in case there's some problem with
> making magnet (or torrent) links. But I'm 99% sure this should be OK, because
> one of the main intentions of free content license is that the content should
> be distributable.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Matija
> -.-.-.-
> [1] I'm a law student in my final year, the prof in question is a FSF member
> and has studied under Eben Moglen[2]
> [2] RMS's right hand; the lawyer who actually wrote GPL;
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen
>