UK Digital Music Sales at a High
The BPI have released the sales figures for 2009. Legal digital downloads reached an all time high last year, coming in at over 115 million. Physical sales continue their decline since 2002, but no ma…
Archive for the 'Free and Legal Files' Category
17 July
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17 June
0Comments Qtrax finally set to launch
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…
29 May
0Comments Guide to legal torrenting
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…
07 May
0Comments Nine Inch Nails strike again…
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…
04 March
0Comments Nine Inch Nails release part of new album for free
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 …
08 August
0Comments Prince Finally Gets New Media
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…
26 June
0Comments It’s Back: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments
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…
15 June
0Comments Fun Friday: Free Distribution is The Key to Making a Living
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…
11 May
0Comments Fun Friday: Create & Share Ringtones
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…
23 March
0Comments "The Free Download Concept Isn’t A Frivolous Act"
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…