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title: Snapster
date: "2003-07-28T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 894
description: 'I highlighted Snapster as a brilliant original idea: a system where listeners buy music and go public to share assets as shareholders. It proposes a novel legal framework for collective digital music ownership.'
keywords: [snapster, music distribution, copyright, shareholder model, kuro5hin, digital assets]
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[Snapster](http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/24/16249/9477). Best original idea I've heard in quite a while. (Buy music, go public, share assets among shareholders)