Yesterday I posted about
how to "legally" share music courtesy of MP3Tunes' Sideload. Today (and again, without formal legal training), I post the easy fix: when the user Sideloads a song, a little dialog box pops up to let them know the content is being Sideloaded and inform them if it was successful or not. It should first simply show a single question: "Should the track you are Sideloading be made public?" with a Yes and No button. Obviously, Yes puts it on Sideload.com too; No doesn't.
This way, it puts the ball unquestionably into the user's court, as they are making the decision whether or not a track is posted to Sideload.com for public distribution. There should also be a way for users to remove tracks they've added to Sideload.com, in case they made a mistake. This makes the Sideload model much more like the Bittorrent model: a technology that in itself doesn't further "piracy" but could be used for in such a way by a particular person, in which case it's that person who is in legal hot water.
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