Make Napster Great Again

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What

A music-sharing Napster on ICP that allows anyone to upload music (mp3) files, host them on their own canisters so that others can listen to that music/audio files

For Whom

1. Fans of cancelled artists whose works are not available on mainstream music platforms like Spotify
2. Amateur singers who want to share their works with friends and family
3. Podcast hosts who need to have a cheaper and more secure storage solution for their podcast files

Pain Points

• A lot of music is not available to their fans
• Restrictions on copyrights create considerable barriers for amateur singers to share their works
• Napster service is no longer in existence

Product Design

• A music player deployed on ICP
• Anyone can upload, with their own canister(s). He pays for the cycles to power his own canisters.
• The platform itself has decentralized governance and does not bear any legal responsibilities of any work that its users upload to (their own) canisters.

Revenue Model

A small platform fee for providing some infrastructure-level services like canister management, hosting a music player, and content discovery