I searched for a similar discussion here but could not find any.
I wondered if there already is a tool which would allow users to easily pay for MP3 tracks they listen to online. Let's take
www.soundcloud.com for example.
First, upon upload, the artist should provide his track with a unique public address where payments will be sent. Then, when I am listening to it, a small prompt next to the track could ask if I would like to support or thank this artist by a small donation. When I click confirm, it should initiate the whole transaction - through a script within soundcloud, or maybe a chrome add-on...
You get the idea... Some additional features I thought about are: paying customers might have some added benefits (like high quality download), each track may have addresses in many different crypto currencies, charts for most listened songs will be public, easy to calculate and easy to verify for manipulation by inspecting the block chains, etc.
Of course, the main use of such service
today would be promoting the use of crypto-currencies for micro payments. Is something similar already underway?
I have a feeling that many crypto-supporters will choose to use such a service just to show the numerous artists and DJs a nice and fair revenue option. This should start the ball for them rolling...
Thanks for reading and a Happy New 2014