Glad that you reached out to them, they also run discord and telegram channels. I too am convinced that blockchain is a large part of a better ecosystem for music rights management. It is not a surprise that SACEM (the french PRO that also runs ASCAP in the US and PRS in UK) is using blockchain (Tezos, I believe) for their date-proofing system called MusicStart, which is free to use for their members. Even in a decentralized blockchain-based system, they probably still would be needed (as a digital signature) for identity checks.
Totally agree also on the valuation of music. My opinion is that it's not actually music that is undervalued but music recordings, which are a slightly different thing. When I started in this business, in the mid 80's, recording an album cost far more than 12k, more like the price of a house. And, from the label's perspective, the recording budget represented from 2 to 8% of the total production cost as you had to add manufacturing objects (vinyls and cd's and cassettes), shoot a video-clip (and that would cost as much as recording, mixing and mastering the whole album) and pay the promotion in the hope that journalists would like the music so you could finally reach the public. Technology has hopefully short-circuited most of this but with side-effects. And like in any domain, the retail price is somehow linked to the production cost, and the latter has been reduced to next to none, especially since Suno, Udio and the likes.
All that being said, I'm very hopeful that this situation will lead the public to value more the music in itself, especially in direct live moments, probably largely improvised, so one knows that what they're witnessing did not exist before and will not happen ever again afterwards. DJ sets and improvised electronic music performances are a good example of that, imo.
Sorry for such a rant...
Not really. I've been following them since the beginning and met the CEO recently at the MaMA festival (a big indie music event in Paris, France). I decided to invest and get some of their $AFT tokens. The main obstacle is that most indie artists are not so informed about the administrative side of music and that many professionals (publishers mostly) tend to be very defiant about blockchain. Convincing both is gonna be a challenge. But Allfeat are already connected to many people and could join the DDEX consortium, that's encouraging.
To me it really looks like Nostr-based music streaming is a dead fish. nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg hasn’t posted or developed anything for a year, nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 is focused only on podcasts (is great!!).
Where are all the musicians on Nostr in general? I’m not talking about the ones who are primarily known on Nostr and are great (Joe, Ainsley, etc) ❤️ — I’m talking about all the other musicians out there… I could count all the musicians on Nostr on my two hands…
Nostr could provide the dream platform for musicians! So where is it?
Sidenote: @TIDAL was supposed to have direct payments but lately talks nothing about it anymore…
Any insights anyone?
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#asknostr #music #musicstr
There were and are many attempts. None successful yet, which is not that surprising that many artists already have quite a lot on their plate already and, at a larger scale, music is a business controlled by only 3 companies that have enough power to strangle any innovation.
Funny I should find your note this morning, when no later than yesterday evening I made my first live twitch as I'm precisely ambitioning to take along those who would like to board the crypto-decentralized train for music...
In the meantime, you may want to have a look at https://allfeat.org/
Choon, Musicoin or Hyperspace may no longer be around, but I keep being confident that we'll get there eventually.
Le calendrier de l'avent de la bêtise internationale continue, aujourd'hui la chambre des Lords britannique : Les moins de 16 ans n'auront plus le droit d'utiliser un VPN. Ce qui inclut logiquement le réseau TOR, pourtant promu et financé par de nombreuses agences d'état, notamment le département d'état des USA.
“Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United
Kingdom
(1) Within 12 months of the day on which this Act is passed the Secretary of State
must, forthe purpose of furthering the protection and wellbeing of children, make
regulations which prohibit the provision to UK children of a Relevant VPN Service
(the “child VPN prohibition”).
https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/63901/documents/7465
In Yakihonne, where does one set a custom blossom server as default ?
Z-image locally rUl3z 😀
Pourquoi et comment décentraliser la musique ! Ça commence jeudi 11 décembre 2025 à 20h45 sur Twitch. https://buff.ly/nQSvWa1
https://blossom.primal.net/18d976ef27444254ba0f9d91146e9fc117da7c5c4573949a55e8901d39ee6d60.mp4
The Irish government has announced that a pilot scheme providing artists and creatives with a weekly stipend of €325 (£283) will be made permanent.
Le rejet du budget mortifère de la Sécurité Sociale aura échoué à 13 voix près.
4 milliards de coupes sur la santé, baisse des allocations familiales, limitation des arrêts maladies ou encore augmentation du prix des mutuelles.
Ce désastre vous est offert par le vote pour du Parti socialiste qui rejoint définitivement la Macronie ainsi que par l’abstention d’une partie des écologistes.
La semaine prochaine, il est encore possible d’envoyer ce budget à la poubelle !
A Chrome extension for detecting React Server Components (RSC) and Next.js App Router fingerprints on web pages.
Just so you know if you didn't patch your apps ;-)
L'UE poursuit sa volonté de surveiller toutes les correspondances électroniques privées et comme le fait d'y obliger toutes les plateformes était un peu "too much", le projet prévoit désormais de récompenser celles qui le feront d'elles mêmes tout en pénalisant celles qui le feront après requête judiciaire.
C'est un peu comme la prise de votre ADN: vous avez le droit de refuser, mais c'est 1500€ d'amende...
Je trouve ça très bien car ça ne peut que pousser la population vers les solutions open-source et décentralisées comme Nostr, Keet ou Session.
Et pendant ce temps, les lois qui protègent le secret des affaires se portent bien. De même qu'on refuse aux journalistes la consultation de documents publics portant sur les contrats d'armement dans le cadre de la guerre au Yemen.
Nouvelle Loi au Royaume-Uni signée par Charles III le 2 décembre 2025 : Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025
Un seul article :
A thing (including a thing that is digital or electronic in nature) is not
prevented from being the object of personal property rights merely because
it is neither—
(a) a thing in possession, nor
(b) a thing in action.
Une chose (y compris une chose de nature numérique ou électronique) ne peut être
privée de son statut d'objet de droits de propriété personnelle au seul motif qu'elle
n'est ni :
(a) une chose en possession, ni
(b) une chose en action.
Formulé autrement, depuis ce 2 décembre, les règles de la propriété s'appliquent bien aux crypto-actifs même si ces droits sortent du cadre traditionnel droit réel (qui porte sur une chose) / droit personnel (droit d'exiger quelque chose de quelqu'un).
Pour certains analystes, c'est le plus grand changement du droit de propriété britannique depuis le moyen-âge.
Mais nous les zéropéens on s'en fout de l'avenir, on va casser du russkoff...
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/29/pdfs/ukpga_20250029_en.pdf
testing zaps for this note… we made one attempts to⚡zap this note, at pat@zap.mat-noir.com, over a period of about 60 seconds. in each case, we found that your lightning address server did not respond correctly. (the failure point was when we did a get request to your specified callback url: https://zap.mat-noir.com/lnurlp/api/v1/lnurl/cb/dhJPaR?webhook_data=alias%3D%27webhook_data%27+extra%3D%7B%7D ). your server did not produce an invoice, thus the zap failed. the error we got was "Amount 1000 is smaller than minimum 10000.0.". if you wanted to fix this... you could try getting a free rizful lightning address -- https://rizful.com ... if u get it set up, pls reply here so we can do this ⚡zap test again.
Wow, thank you for the insight 👍It should be fixed now! Have a nice day.
It's because it's usually spelled Outdorski 😀 Maybe try a dating app?
The new euro already exists, it used to be called (and might be called again in a not so distant future) the Deutsche Mark 😁
Comme j'ai l'impression que les cours de music-business que je délivre depuis pas mal d'années se sont récemment transformés en cours d'histoire, je souhaite entamer une exploration méthodique des alternatives qui s'offrent aujourd'hui aux artistes et labels indépendants.
Mais il ne servirait à pas grand chose de le faire seul dans mon coin, d'où la mise en place de live twitch.
Au programme, en premier lieu, une économie alternative va nécessiter une monnaie alternative et ce ne peut être que #bitcoin. On va donc commencer par voir comment devenir sa propre banque, avec du #lightningnetwork dedans.
Restez dans le coin, j'annonce les premières dates bientôt...
https://blossom.mat-noir.com/695a637aec9e129865d3c2794bc6ece7a9877ab6fac8261b25e74086629631f5.mp4
Du bon usage de l'ia ;-)
Who really needs them, anyway?
WARNER MUSIC GROUP AND SUNO FORGE GROUNDBREAKING PARTNERSHIP
After the Universal/Udio agreement, this will be most interesting to follow…
Warner Music Group https://buff.ly/2hEDJY2