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by Jordan Grodecki on June 17, 2008
It feels a bit wierd as I blogged about this same thing on DigitalMusicFuture yesterday, but it's still very relevant over here. Qtrax, a Free P2P service, which is supported by adverts and DRMe...
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by Jordan Grodecki on May 29, 2008
Zeropaid, large p2p news site, has written a nice guide on where to find free and legal torrents to download. When you look into it, it's quite suprising how much free and legal material there i...
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by Jordan Grodecki on May 7, 2008
Nine Inch Nails, who earlier this year released Ghosts, a collection of instrumental tracks in an experimental online distribution system, have done themselves one better, and released their new alb...
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by Jordan Grodecki on March 4, 2008
Nine Inch Nails aka Trent Reznor, has released part 1 of their new 4 part album for free via bittorrent and also via direct download from their site. It comes in high quality MP3, and allows you to ...
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by Marc on August 8, 2007
Pop star Prince shocked the major labels with a new marketing plan - free music. He gave away almost 3 million CDs of his latest album, Planet Earth, in the UK. They were distributed with the Mail new...
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by Marc on June 26, 2007
It's a comedy 3,000 years in the making and Viacom shut it down.
The DMCA makes it easy for copyright holders to request content be removed. But what about when they get it wrong?
Viacom has se...
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by Marc on June 15, 2007
New York artist and former software programmer Jonathan Coulton is profiled in the New York Times magazine section. He explains how he's created a full-time living through free distribution. He wr...
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by Marc on May 11, 2007
MyxerTones is an Internet service that takes all the technology out of ringtones. Enter your phone number and phone model. Badabing! You're set. Use it three ways.
1. SURF THE STORED RINGTONES. S...
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by Marc on May 8, 2007
Artist peter gabriel has been a leader in digital music. He co-founded OD2, one of the first digital download stores. He's now backing We7, a new entrant in the emerging ad-based non-DRM music sce...
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by Marc on March 23, 2007
Fun Friday brings free downloads for our readers. The band Harvey Danger cordially requests your presence to download its latest album free and asks you to share it with your friends. Technologist Tim...
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by Marc on February 19, 2007
Suretone Records, a Universal Music Group label, will distribute videos of top and new artists on the P2P file sharing networks. The files will not be secured and can be freely and legally downloaded ...
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by Marc on October 31, 2006
I'm pleased to announce the P2P search engine at P2P Seek, which I've developed. P2P Seek provides the latest P2P technology and legal music and video. The P2P Search Engine encompasses over 2...
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by Marc on October 23, 2006
Creative Commons has exploded with over 140 million links to their licenses. These links typically are associated with individual files and indicate the applicable license covering copyright and usage...
Read more of Creative Commons: 140 Million Files Strong
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by Marc on September 22, 2006
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston provides free concert recordings live from its Tapestry Room. Enjoy the great music, send it to your friend, and share it via P2P. New songs are posted every ...
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by Marc on August 25, 2006
Check out the excellent RIAA parody song from Weird Al Yankovic. Yes, you CAN download the song free. Choice lyrics include support from Metallica's infamous Lars Ulrich and the threat that if you...
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by Marc on February 22, 2006
SXSW is providing 3GB of free band music and film trailers though Bit Torrent P2P for the public to check out the acts and videos prior to the event. The content includes 83 film trailers and 713 mp3s...
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by Marc on February 20, 2006
Yes, Virginia, there is legally free music you can download that is in the public domain. At least until Disney passes a new law that extends the copyright duration to 1,000 years.
Wikipedia has a n...
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by Marc on January 17, 2006
There is one less company polluting P2P users. Loudeye has closed its Overpeer division, which it bought less than two years ago in March 2004. The acquistion started strongly as the company announced...
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by Marc on February 15, 2005
SNIU is SUBSTANTIAL NON-INFRINGING P2P USE. There are tens of thousands of artists and content creators and hundreds of thousands of music, video, photo, game, and other files that are non-infringing,...
