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Question:
Is this right or wrong, this is just music they could have TAPED with cassetts off the Radio.
What is next? Being sued for that? For Singing a song without permission in the shower?
My Opinion is that they are losing money in all aspect of the business, and driving away actual customer with their $20 CD prices, that they are using any means possiable to scare people away from anything that gives them the choice of what they want to listen to when except by buying their products.
Whats next? Paying for Radio? (Free Radio, I am a XM Radio person myself) Or Commercials on the CDs you do buy?
Opinions?
Answer:
There are several options for free, legal music downloads.
The first is Podcasts. My favorite is Crap from the Past at crapfromthepast.com. The host Ron "Boogymoster" Gerber, describes it as a graduate level course in pop music, and he's not far off. You'll hear a lot of music that hasn't been on the air for a long time. The program is available as a podcast, with three half hour segments coming out a week.
Another great source of Public Domain and Creative Commons music is archive.org. For example, It's amazing how much old school Jazz has fallen into the Public Domain. A lot of techno and pop artists use a Creative Commons license that makes non-commercial distribution legal.
Jamendo.com is a record label that makes all their music available for download for free. The idea is to give away MP3s to encourage people to buy the actual CDs.
You can also look into various music Podcasts. For example, there are some really good Celtic music podcasts, Celtic Music News being my favorite. celticmusicnews.com
The BBC and NPR have a variety of music programs, most of which are free downloads or can be listened to as streaming media.
Finally, there's etree.org. A LOT of artists give permission to allow the recording and distribution of their live performances. etree.org only offers "lossless" recordings, so you'll need to convert them into another format to use them on your portable media player. The good news is since these are lossless files to start with, you won't have the data degradation and conversion artifacts typical of say, converting a WMA to an MP3. It's more like ripping an CD.
All told, there's a LOT out there free of charge. The Kuro5hin article I link to below has even more detail.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/0...
http://www.celticmusicnews.com/...
http://archive.org
http://crapfromthepast.com
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://www.etree.org/
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/0...
Its ALL ABOUT THE MONEY>This stinkin' world revolves around it.You can't do much now without a big wad of cash to splash around.
Never used to be that way though,did it.Companies had at least some respect.Now,you are a comodity.If you don't play by the rules,they've got fat-pig rich lawyers who can't wait to make out you're some slime ball with a computer that smoked a joint when you were 6.
Yeh mate.I'm affraid the way we are heading,if it's not happened already,corparate rish bastards will tell us which music to listen to.They'll put secret messages in their music to make us buy from one f their mass global outlets...or something like that!! lol
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