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Even though RIAA executives will probably spit out their coffee if they happen upon this post, I’m going to give you a round-up of some of my favorite free (and completely legal) internet music services.
WE7:
This free site delivers free tracks from mostly unknown artists (although you will find...
Read More | 21 Days Ago | Comments: 14 | Last Comment: 17 Days Ago
According to the Guardian newspaper, the much publicised reports circulating online and in the global print media that Sir Paul McCartney has struck a deal to put the Beatles back catalogue up for download on iTunes this year is simply not true. The story is that Sir Paul has agreed a £200 million...
Read More | Mar 10th, 2008
Who could forget DVD Jon, the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption and landed DVD Jon in front of a judge. Which did not stop him from continuing his quest to free audiovisual...
Read More | Feb 19th, 2008
Yes, in a bizarre twist and turn of fate, the original bad boy of illegal MP3 downloads which then went legit and hooked subscribers into music with Microsoft's digital rights management system has changed tack and announced it is to sell MP3 format tunes. So, OK, maybe not a real return to its...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
Radiohead are a band which does not need to prove anything to anyone. Their seminal album 'OK Computer' is consistently voted one of the greatest recordings of all time, be it the critics or mere mortal music fans putting the crosses in the boxes. Which is perhaps why the latest Radiohead album 'In...
Read More | Nov 6th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Nov 6th, 2007
According to a legal document published at the Electronic Frontier Foundation site, the copyright Nazis at Universal Music Group might have bitten off more than they can chew when they ordered the removal of a Dancing baby clip from YouTube.
Stephanie Lenz posted a video clip on YouTube of her 18...
Read More | Oct 28th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Oct 28th, 2007
If you like listening to Pandora but are not living in the United States at the moment, you may want to enjoy it while you can, because Pandora has announced that they're going to block non-US visitors in short order. Why? You guessed it: licensing problems.
Previously, Pandora had only claimed...
Read More | May 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: May 4th, 2007
Today, Apple announced that they have now sold over 100 million iPods, which comes after they had released the first iPod 5-and-a-half years ago.
Grammy award winner John Mayer said about the iPod: "Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of...
Read More | Apr 10th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Apr 11th, 2007
It seems like Apple is nearing a day we'd never think would come. This time it seems official. According to the reports, Apple and EMI have formed a deal that would not only allow Apple to sell EMI's music on their store (quite possibly The Beatles), but "large portions of these would be without...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 2nd, 2007
It's the one thing that we never thought would happen - Apple opening up FairPlay, the system that governs the DRM for music bought from the iTunes store. And if Tech.co.uk is correct, it could very well happen.
I can barely believe it; after all, Apple is not known for opening up technologies....
Read More | Jan 17th, 2007
