We believe digital goods of value should be ownable by the people who buy them. LMAP is an open, peer-to-peer protocol that makes it possible. Media bought through it can be kept, lent, or resold, independent of the platform that sold it. Stewarded by the Liquid Media Foundation, in formation.
Liquid media is physical-grade ownership in digital form. When a platform sells a digital good through LMAP (a film, an album, a game), the buyer can keep it, lend it, or resell it, the way a record or a book always has. The protocol underneath is open, so what someone owns never depends on any single platform, studio, or service staying in business.
A digital good owned outright: transferable, platform-agnostic, permanent. Not a license, not a subscription. A thing held, not rented.
An open, peer-to-peer standard. Ownership is recorded on a public ledger, files live on a content-addressed network (IPFS), and access follows whoever holds the token. Media-format-agnostic by design.
The Liquid Media Foundation stewards the protocol, structurally separate from any company that builds on it. In formation.
A player-server lets someone watch a title and serve it to the network at the same time; a dedicated node simply serves. Both add capacity and liquidity for every asset on the network, and the protocol is designed to reward operators for the bandwidth they contribute.
A platform selling digital goods can let buyers own them outright: liquify a title, sell it, and settle resales, all through one open protocol.
Film, music, games, software. New to liquid media? We'll orient you and point you to the platform that supports your medium. Today that's Wylloh for film; more as platforms come online.
LMAP is built and governed in the open. Write code, review the spec, or help steward the foundation. For developers who care that people own what they buy.
LMAP v2.6: the full protocol, from ownership and access control to the Seed node network and royalty distribution. Read it as a web page, not a PDF wall.
The Liquid Media Foundation exists to keep LMAP open and neutral, and no larger than it needs to be. It's a non-profit steward, in formation, structurally separate from any platform that builds on the protocol, and meant to be supported by the ecosystem it serves, the way an industry standards body is.
Backing the space means investing in the companies building on LMAP, starting with Wylloh, not the foundation itself. As the protocol matures and decentralizes, the foundation's role narrows by design.
Two ways to signal. Both go to the same place: a person, not a funnel.
