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# Tell My Friends
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/tell-my-friends/
- Published: 2012-08-15T15:05:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:08.000Z
- Description: Tell My Friends is a new platform that financially rewards people for legally sharing digital content.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Music, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Come across a tune you love but can't afford the vinyl? Purchased a track that you're desperate for your friends to hear? Then no doubt you've resorted to some form of illegal ripping, downloading or sharing without giving it a second thought. Digital piracy is a ubiquitous problem to which most of us are oblivious or not particularly sensitive to, so the people behind the Singapore-based [Tell My Friends](http://tell-my-friends.com/?ref=protein.xyz) have conjured up a system encourages the responsible sharing of music.

Users visit the [Tell My Friends facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/tellmyfriends), sign up to the service, choose which commission scheme they'd prefer and buy a track. They then have a licensed link to the content and each time someone buys the link from them, they're paid a small amount of money which in turn guarantees the artist is paid their dues, too.

Attempting to deter piracy by involving consumers in a system that’s rewarding not punitive is an idea we really like. And what’s more, it's an interesting way for a brand to capitalise on the power of peer-to-peer recommendation.