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OCRemix.Org already does this with their music, so its possible.

What are your thoughts on Jamendo from an artists point of view?

https://artists.jamendo.com/introduction-en/

Not big on them saying they can take from people who may be your fans for you lol

They'll "hunt" em down for me! Love to know:)

These restrictions are meant to forbid what other people can do. So you yourself can do anything with your content, no matter what's in the license. It just means other people can't use it in their projects if relates to making money. But I think something like CC BY-SA or BY-NC-SA is a solid choice. I'm always for freedom, so I'd drop the NC and allow my audience to do practically whatever they want... But it's your creation and your choice.

Private trackers are closed communities for sharing torrents. Often you can either interview to get access, or occasionally one with have open sign up for access. These usually have strict requirements to maintain a reasonable ratio of seeding for your downloads to prevent greedy users from ruining performance of sharing.

Redacted is one of these communities, based strictly around music and maintaining quality, refusing to allow low quality encoding of the data. It is harder to get into the community, as well as very strict seeding requirements to maintain.

Information about who they are and how to apply for access can all be found at https://interviewfor.red/

Seeding is a good way to be a good pirate. Some sites show your seed to leech ratio. As a rule of thumb, I usually try to seed double what I leech, but if I find something niche without a lot of seeders I try to maintain until the seeder rate becomes healthy. Simply put, you just don't delete or stop the torrent after its completely downloaded and don't quit your client. Just let it keep going.

You may find that your internet speed drops when seeding. In that case, most clients have a way to cap your upload speeds. Most modern internet speeds can keep up though; it used to be required way back when dial-up and DSL was more prevalent. You know, the good old times of spending three days downloading a movie to find out that it was scat porn.

The torrent protocol works by having uploader (seeders) users sharing their files to downloader users (leechers). Users are topically both seeders and leechers.

With that in mind, to seed a file means to share it with others. And yes, you need your torrent client open for that. QBitTorrent is amazing and doesn't have much overhead in your system, plus you can limit your upload speed and net upload. Some console-based torrent apps are even lighter. No VPS required unless you have specific constraints.

Not anymore. They are owned by Songtradr now

Yes. It's like $9 for a perpetual release. I used Amuse.io before, but they suck you in and hit you with fake fees after you're on their service.

With the utmost respect - if your music reaches enough people its going to end up on YouTube like it or not, especially under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. But I respect not wanting to endorse the platform yourself.

It’s peer-to-peer like torrents, but on its own network. Use can share anything but it’s primarily used for music. You set a folder to share from and if someone looks up a file you have, they can download it from you.