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chris , 1 month ago

What are you saying? This is an open source project that is connected to the fediverse. It aims to be something comparable to soundcloud where people can share their music. What about this is says monetization?

chris , 1 month ago

I am unsure if I understand you correctly. Funkwhale is for you to publish music or other audio you make yourself. Not for your commercial music library. And the software itself is under the GNU AGPLv3. You can host the software yourself on your own server or you join an instance of someone else. Just like lemmy, mastodon or all the other fediverse projects.

chris , 1 month ago

Depending on your jurisdiction it is probably your responsibility to enforce your copyright. I can always just record your music off a streaming platform. You can attach a license to your song in funkwhale (see this). If you want DRM for your music then funkwhale is probably also not for your. You still have to enforce your self that nobody monetizes your works if you don't allow it. You can delete things from the fediverse if you know the source but I don't think funkwhale allows DRM protected music.

If you attach a license to your works that doesn't allow monetization and they monetize the app you can sue them. I doubt they will though. And they probably wouldn't be very successful because the app and the server are open source. You could just build the app without monetization. And someone probably would.

The upload and sharing copyrighted music probably falls into the hands of the instance admin. As with PeerTube it is probably not a good idea to have open signups. But everyone has to make sure that doesn't happen.

The fediverse is an open and very liberal space. If you want full control over your works it is probably not for you. No software with federation probably is. If you want and need to control over your works (which is legitimate) you need something with a tighter grip, maybe host the things yourself on your server with DRM. That doesn't mean it is bad for everyone.

chris , 1 month ago

Only if you have enough starting capital to skirt through life without a worry.

chris , 2 months ago

Yes. If you don't connect it is pretty dumb and shouldn't be able to send your data for harvesting. You sould research if you can set it to one of the outputs permanently then you can use some external device that you trust.

chris , 3 months ago

What do you want to run via poe? How many poe ports? Is a poe injector also okay?

chris , 3 months ago

The lowest power option depends on what you attach. With a poe injector you can use a dumb switch and a poe injector as an external device.

The poe injector has usually 3 connections: power and 2 ethernet jacks. One ethernet neck is for plain ethernet the other one has added poe. It loops through the data but adds power to one of the ports.

To determine the lowest power option or is useful to know your minimum specs. How many ports do you need in total? Do you need smart capabilities? Do you need or want morn than one poe port?

chris , 3 months ago

No. But there is Waypipe.

chris , 4 months ago

Piwigo has an S3 extension https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=691

chris , 4 months ago

But I want something else.

chris , 4 months ago

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