Interested in helping to weave together a new marketplace for the independent media producer? Prodigem has just launched a new part of its service that allows you to sell your content. Check out more info for all the details, but the gist is that you will shortly be able to upload your content into Prodigem, name your selling price and then have Prodigem collect your revenue while controlling access to the torrent. We take out 10% + transaction costs (PayPal) and then once a month you get a check in the mail. You're happy, we're happy and your customers are happy because they get stuff they can own with no DRM. If you want to try your hand at the new market, this torrent shows what everything looks like. The content is a 10 minute documentary I put together and as an example is available for $0.99.

As it so happens, we are currently looking for a handful of people excited by this opportunity with content that they'd like to sell. Please get in contact with our request address if you are interested.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 11:28 AM in prodigem | Comments (7)  

Gary, this looks like an interesting experiment. I'm new to Prodigem, so I'd appreciate some help catching up. Does Prodigem seed the torrents, or just track them? In other words, if I push content into your Market, do I also need to seed it?

Thanks, and best of luck with this.

Posted by: Brian Del Vecchio at April 6, 2005 08:02 AM

Prodigem seeds the torrent permanently. So, no, you do not (but extra seeders are always welcome).

Posted by: Gary at April 6, 2005 08:51 AM

Interesting. How is control of access to said product torrents maintained?

Posted by: dev at April 7, 2005 08:40 AM

My tracker only allows access to these torrents to IP addresses that are associated with paying customers.

Posted by: Gary at April 7, 2005 11:01 AM

So then, if a customer connects via wifi or the lifetime of their semi-static ip expires (or they're on dialup), they're SOL?

Posted by: dev at April 7, 2005 02:45 PM

No. If you connect via wifi or otherwise, you still have a public ip address. Should your IP address expire, I'd imagine you wouldnt then have much for internet connectivity until you got a new one. At this point, you'd just need to relogin to Prodigem from the web.

Posted by: Gary at April 7, 2005 03:09 PM

follow up, perhaps i'm not being very clear on the ip address business. prodigem doesn't simply record the ip address of the purchases, it allows access to the ip address associated with the computer you have logged into prodigem from. so if you ip is A yesterday and B today, just as long as you log into prodigem today so that it can see you from B, then you can access the torrent on that day from B.

Posted by: Gary Lerhaupt at April 7, 2005 03:12 PM