The Black Crowes are pulling a page from Pearl Jam's "authorized bootleg" scheme, but giving it an internet twist.

Billboard reports the band will make every show from its upcoming summer tour with Oasis -- dubbed "The Tour Of Brotherly Love" -- available for download from a secure online site.

Fans who buy their upcoming studio album, "Lions" (due May 8) will get a password that will allow them access to the site to download an as-yet-unannounced number of live shows from the tour, the report said.

Pearl Jam has similarly made every date of their European and North American tour dates available, but sold them via mail order from their website and through traditional retail outlets. The Crowes' scheme bypasses both the retail route and eschews the cost of manufacturing hard-copies of the shows on CD, allowing fans to freely downlaod the music.

"Each show will be uploaded a week after it is performed," V2 president Richard Sanders told Billboard.

"Every night the band will send us a package with a CD burn, which will be a left/right channel mix, similar to a board tape. If we can get them up sooner, we will."

Based on Sanders remarks, it appears fans who download the shows will have the option of burning their own copies of the music.

"You will be able to sample everything, pick the shows you like the best, and download them and have your own live CDs," he told Billboard.

"There is no fee involved at all."

Last year, the Crowes experimented with live album releases in a deal with Musicmaker.com, which allowed fans to customize their own version of the group's live record with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. A regular double-disc set was subsequently released to retail via TVT Records.

Although the Oasis/Crowes tour doesn't launch until May 11 in Las Vegas, Billboard said the first show to be available through the online plan will be the group's concert Friday at the South By Southwest music conference in Austin.