   Building music protection
  I have my own music and I am afraid of it being pirated. I want it like msn music or that new URGE program where people can't burn it to a disk. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to design a system that does this or how they work. Thanks.   
  A lot of bands these days just give away their music to build exposure and then expect people to buy their album if they like it. I know it's worked on me.   ;Quote:Original post by doctorhair1I have my own music and I am afraid of it being pirated. I want it like msn music or that new URGE program where people can't burn it to a disk. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to design a system that does this or how they work. Thanks.Are you really that big that you can't tremendously benefit from any exposure you can get?   ;  Yeah really if you aren't going out places to play music then you want people to pirate it.  Otherwise nobody is going to listen to it anyways.  There are thousands of bands on those free music hosting sites and I doubt most of them are taking up any bandwidth from downloads.And no offense but you aren't that good to try and claim something like that.  My friend doesn't pirate but he does burn copies of CDs he buys so that he has one copy for the car and for home.   ;  No I'm not that big lol. I just would like to learn how to do it so I can provide it for myself and my friends. No big deal though, if anyone knows about an idea then great, if not, o well like I said I'm not to worried about it.   ;  Keep it for yourself and your friends. Othewise why worry about piracy and not bootleg?   ;  There is no song that plays on a speaker that can not be burned.  Granted, it may be lower quality, but it can be done.  Besides that, most protection systems can be circumnavigated with enough demand and time.  Knowing nothing about the URGE program, I'd guess that it's no exception.   ;  Personally I feel letting people share your music, is indeed a quick way to gain popularity. This is more of a concern if you were a very large and well know band. In which case it would cause you to lose money when you already are popular.   