[narrationbox]

So if I am launching a Spotify/Audible-style music/audiobook streaming platform, how will the pricing work out? Do we pay you instead of the original author for any user uploaded content? If the original author chooses to upload their content onto our platform, do we scan it with your API and explicitly whitelist it and pay them directly?

Your company looks very cool btw. What's your email?

[doh]

My email is [e-mail]

The way this works is that you send all content through us via our SDK which generates fingerprints (so content doesn’t exchange hands). If the rightsholder is registered with us (it’s free), then we can take care of everything from payments, ADR (alternate dispute resolution), reporting, ...

If the rightsholder uploads their own content to the platform, they are able to pre-license their content in our system (different word for allowlist, but a bit more nuanced as these lists run into GDPR issues).

Rightsholders are also free to have direct relationships with platforms while we run the backend. We don’t require any particular licensing to be done through us.

Hopefully this makes sense.

[cwkoss]

I might suggest using a different email for public communications.

When I read your email, it looks like "rape x dot com", which is quite unfortunate.

[doh]

I must say that’s the first time someone said something like this. Not to dismiss your comment, but I don’t think this is a common thing.

I think one could also read it as rat pex, but also not something that ever happened before :)

[vgb2k18]

Visually the first 4 letters do look like rape, r@pe x.com. Rat x would be uncommon since there is no ‘t’ to be seen there, and phoentically its a long R, sounds like “are at pecks dot com”. From a marketing perspective I’d consider changing it just because of the negative connotations the word r@pe elicits in the mind. But if it’s personal email address then not much reason to consider my opinion at all.

P.s., if it is a personal email, please do disregard my message, and feel free to in return critique my own username: vgb2k18, it’s an acronym for very good boy 2018.

[RuleOfBirds]

Fwiw, "rape x" is exactly what I read your email as before I read the other comment saying the same.

[afthonos]

I, uh, also had the reaction as GP…

[chris_wot]

Dude, change it. It’s obviously an unintentional thing, but it is a thing.

If penisland.com (formerly Pen Island) and therapist.com periodically appears on unintentionally funny URL lists regularly, you might find your email address getting raised eyebrows.

[ObsoleteNerd]

I thought the exact same thing fwiw.