wanderingstan

Recording one’s attention is a cool idea, even if there aren’t a ton of tools to use it right now. But here’s a thought: What if you had an application that recorded what music you listened to (a form of attention) so that artists could be paid based on how often they’re played.

From a recent Wired article about MP3:

…watermarks could be used to monitor playback in order to determine how to pay artists out of a shared revenue pool, tracking not only what was bought, but how much it was played.

Watermarking may not be the way to go, but if services like Rhapsody catch on, (and I agree this is the future) then this sort of attention tracking could be done automatically.

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