{"id":4314,"date":"2016-04-27T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2016-04-27T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T21:07:31","slug":"steal-this-show-s01e09-fairtade-for-music-can-the-blockchain-fix-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4314","title":{"rendered":"Steal This Show S01E09: Fairtade For Music \u2013 Can The Blockchain Fix Copyright?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/steal240.png\" alt=\"steal240\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-113930\"><\/a>This special episode of STEAL THIS SHOW features&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/5297830\/40-under-40-benji-rogers\">Benji Rogers<\/a> of the direct-to-fan music platform, <a href=\"http:\/\/pledgemusic.com\">PledgeMusic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As we find out, Benji&#8217;s an independent musician who founded his platform to offer artists a unique way to engage their fans and super fans, resulting in chart topping albums worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Benji was recognized on Billboard\u2019s <em>40 Under 40 Power Players<\/em> list and in 2014 at the MUSEXPO International Music Awards, he won <em>Digital Executive of the Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss how Benji&#8217;s early days with his band produced the idea for PledgeMusic; just how broken the traditional copyright system is for musicians; and Benji&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/cuepoint\/bc-a-fair-trade-music-format-virtual-reality-the-blockchain-76fc47699733#.e64qcv89j\">big idea<\/a>: to push music rights into the blockchain, creating a &#8220;Fair Trade&#8221; for musicians!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stealthisshow.com\">Steal This Show<\/a> aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary and analysis. <\/p>\n<p>The guests for our news discussions will vary and we&#8217;ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong> Jamie King<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/5297830\/40-under-40-benji-rogers\">Benji Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Produced <\/strong> <em>by <\/em>Jamie King<br \/>\n<strong>Edited &#038; Mixed<\/strong> <em>by<\/em> Eric Bouthiller<br \/>\n<strong>Original Music<\/strong> <em>by<\/em> David Triana<br \/>\n<strong>Web Production<\/strong> <em>by<\/em> Siraje Amarniss<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/\">TF<\/a>, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2016-160102\/\">torrent sites<\/a> and  <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/vpn-provider-anonymous-review-160220\/\">ANONYMOUS VPN services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?a=OndYfotze40:l02boOVzqpU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?a=OndYfotze40:l02boOVzqpU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?i=OndYfotze40:l02boOVzqpU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Torrentfreak\/~4\/OndYfotze40\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSource: TorrentFreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This special episode of STEAL THIS SHOW features&nbsp;Benji Rogers of the direct-to-fan music platform, PledgeMusic. As we find out, Benji&#8217;s an independent musician who founded his platform to offer artists a unique way to engage their fans and super fans, resulting in chart topping albums worldwide. In 2013, Benji was recognized on Billboard\u2019s 40 Under &#8230; <a title=\"Steal This Show S01E09: Fairtade For Music \u2013 Can The Blockchain Fix Copyright?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4314\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}