One of the reasons I've not done much work on this site thus far is the legal complications. My understanding is that for my own protection I need to establish a legal entity such that if somebody is unsatisfied with what my site is doing my personal well being is not threatened. My personal beliefs are largely negative towards the legal industry and I could rant for days about it, so I won't go down that path unless I get rant-y. ... which happens sometimes so I apologize.
But more specifically I worry about the music industry's resistance to change, and their legal response to anything new. My personal beliefs about how the world should work aside, I do not want to get sued for something I am not guilty of, because the cost of defending myself will be well above and beyond what most people consider reasonable.
Obviously, various entertainment folks are heavily invested in the current methodology of the industry. The legacy players have their part in things, and have helped serve the goals of society and music in the past, but my belief is that the present opens up all sorts of new methods that should help creators be more productive and add to the overall benefit of society and any resistance to this is selfish; so I will do my best to prepare myself for what I assume is an inevitable legal assault against my character and well being.
The first step in this is not doing too much work on the site, or enabling features that could potentially draw ire. So, apologies for the four people who have interest in this point, but I am not ready yet. And given that I have a full time job, I do not know how best to estimate when I will be there.
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