It seems that a full scale mutiny and rebellion against the music labels has begun. Several major bands, including Oasis, Jamiroquai and Radiohead as well as rock band "Throwdown" have gone together to encourage their fans to download their music. The bands are doing this because they've realized that by allowing the fans to share music, they're selling more music in the end.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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leo
4 years 32 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago
Hopefully this news is a sign that
Hopefully this news is a sign that we are moving into a new era in music that will see open source music (where albums are distributed with all of the samples and tracks that were recorded before the production process turned them into the finished product) become more widely available, especially considering we now have greater storage capacity media like DVDs and HD-DVDs available for storing all of the content that goes into making the music.
dave
4 years 32 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago
Trent Reznor (from Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor (from Nine Inch Nails and the producer of Marilyn Manson) also recently came out against high CD prices in Australia and has said he "wants to offer $4 dollar album downloads at a bitrate of your choice, and blames the record industry for its own problems by having ripped off customers for so many years." Quote from the article: Trent Reznor: "I steal music too" - http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8800/Trent+Reznor:+'I+steal+music+too'
kiba
4 years 32 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago
The music labels could really help
The music labels could really help the bands as respectable marketeers not the sick pyscho-path they're being.
The music labels could be part of the revolution, but unfortunately they choose to take the suicide pill.
The countdown to their death are accelerating as they continue to go suing customers.
In the end, we won't miss when the companies behind the RIAA die out. Good riddance.
Smegzor
4 years 32 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago
Open source music: www.ccmixter.org And
Open source music:
www.ccmixter.org
And for free sounds:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
For Creative Commons licensed music:
www.jamendo.com THIS site is GREAT! Just sayin :)
And for more good music (not CC as far as I can see):
www.magnatune.com
Others I don't visit much but have bookmarked:
http://www.musopen.com
http://www.pdinfo.com
http://www.archive.org/index.php