FREE Download of the Day – music from the BitTorrent Entertainment Network
Who knew that the BitTorrent Entertainment Network offered free tunes alongside the ones for sale?.
BitTorrent Inc’s BitTorrent Entertainment Network offers a wide variety of tracks, concert recordings, and even videos for FREE download in addition to the ones for sale.
The selection of FREE content is actually pretty good and surprising considering that it’s offered at [...]
EMI and Bertelsmann settle Napster lawsuit
EMI on Monday agreed to settle a lawsuit against Bertelsmann related to the German media group’s support for Napster, the online file-sharing service that spurred a piracy epidemic that is still straining the music industry.
Eric Nicoli, EMI’s chief executive, said he was "pleased" by the settlement but declined to [...]
Clickster – freeware program lets you search and download MP3s from the Internet
Clickster is an easy to use program which searches and downloads MP3 files from the Internet and NOT from P2P or file-sharing networks.
The real beauty of the program is that it provides a “comprehensive and credible alternative” to [...]
AudioFind – 33 Cents a Song AND Legal!
According to a press release that I was recently handed, AudioFind is now one of the newest places to purchase your MP3 files online from. What sets this site apart however, is that it is the first Russian online music store to start legal sales of digital downloads.
They have already begun to offer some [...]
Radio Blog lets you play music for free and put tracks on MySpace
After reporting on the site FineTune, which allows users to play and stream music tracks of their choice for free, I though I’d point out another site that allows you to do the same but, with less hassles and better features.
The site is called “radio.blog.club,” and is much easier and more convenient to use. [...]
Grooveshark startup Plans to Pay Music Pirates
The people behind Grooveshark, the groundbreaking new P2P music download service, answer the tough questions like what benefits users will get from contributing, what content they can contribute, and what the they think of the RIAA and the IFPI.
Last week I wrote an article describing the upcoming start of a revolutionary new P2P music [...]
Grooveshark, first LEGAL P2P music service?
Though not yet available, Grooveshark claims to be a new P2P music-sharing community that will compensate both copyright holders and members who participate in the community.
Grooveshark will be a P2P music file-sharing community that will broker music transactions between members. It will be charging for the songs exchanged between members on the [...]
Zune Accessories
The Zune player came out recently and one disadvantage to owning one that early was the limited release of accessories and “bling” to go with them. I love getting a new gadget but part of that love is being able to get out and add things to it to make it more personalized.
Now there [...]
Universal pursues digital demand via classics site
Universal Music, the world’s biggest music company, launched what it billed as the largest online site for classical and jazz music on Wednesday as part of a drive to exploit rising demand for digital downloads.
“We expect sales to begin with to be relatively modest, but by the third or fourth quarter of the year to [...]
Radio competes against downloads, file-sharing, satellite broadcasts
Although iPod remains a four-letter word to many in the radio business, the top podcast on the iTunes chart, week after week, is a radio show: "This American Life," the weekly syndicated public radio show hosted by Ira Glass. It’s a sign that radio, instead of fighting the competition from online and satellite radio, [...]
