It may be easier to find a needle in a haystack than to find a site which offers free music and videos on the web nowadays. Pay for download sites have at least made it more affordable for the music lover to get their hands on the latest and hottest hits off the web which they can use for personal purposes. MP3How.com is a portal which gives you access to music from several sites that are hailed to be the best on the net. They offer some of the lowest rates for people who love music and don’t want to spend a fortune doing so. This is the best option for music labels for DRM has proved to be quite ineffective even to control illegal/pirated music within their borders. Some sites have opted to give free downloads that have advertising included within the tracks as their major source of income. They can be accessed through a proprietary player which also acts as the download interface and conversion platform (for conversion into formats that the myriad of players support some of which have proprietary formats) for the downloaded tracks.
The next, most viable option for music labels is to sell music already in digital format that avoids piracy with included DRM solutions embedded. Major labels have done so through affiliation with music downloading sites in hopes of getting revenue from their music, making it so cheap that people would opt to buy the licensed songs rather than the pirated ones. Asia is still one of the most notorious regions on earth where piracy has become a source of livelihood for the many citizens of developing countries. China, Taiwan, and other countries in Asia have long been at war at these piracy rings but sometimes arrests and stopping one, results in several replacing them and the cycle goes on and on. The key would be to prevent the demand so as to affect the supply which is why sites like MP3How have started to offer membership for less than a dollar to access over 3 million strong collection of songs, videos and TV shows.
Tags: Free-Hits, Free-songs, Free-Videos, MP3
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, Providers
Just some of the long lived music sharing sites (Blubster, EzTracks, Kazaa, etc.) that have very strong publicized control on copyrighted music but total discretion is left to the end-user. One can get music and share it for free just as long as it is completely legal? What gives, many sites for music sharing have followed suit in their file sharing disclaimer but enforcement tends to be lax and mostly nonexistent.
Most of the file sharing sites use bit torrents as the foundation of their file sharing system but some offer streaming video and music direct from company servers. Some work is truly published under the royalty free acts but mostly to get you hooked-on. Some sites offer music downloads for minimal fees (as low as $0.19 as I have looked around). This might place us back to the point when paid legal downloads are still the best source of downloads and well they still are. Paying ensures you get the best quality service and products while helping the mostly freelance people get some revenues in promoting their music talents over the internet. It might be quite steep (please don’t expect to get the latest tracks of your favorite artists for cheap prices) but hey, let us be realistic and talent does come at a price. If one opts to get the hottest music hot off the charts, try using bit torrent systems and get them from others like you who want free and hot music. Bit torrents have proven to be hard to police as many governments and regulatory bodies have found for the servers and file-sharers are dynamic meaning any sign of trouble can send the perp’s hightailing it out of the scene with a simple act as going off-line or pulling the network cable plug.
Many great and commendable music sharing sites still exist like the ones mentioned above which will continue to fuel the DRM issue but as they might already know, it is a loosing battle and the people will prevail.
Happy New Year to all.
Tags: BluBster, EzTracks, Free-songs, Freeware, Kazaa
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Freeware, Mobile Phones, Music, Providers
This might be the trend of the future with artists having their own dedicated sites instead of having them under big labels doing their own independent marketing and selling. Many artists, well mostly those who are in the process of making it big but do have the talent and guts to take on the many labels have opted to get onto the social network using it as their own marketing and sharing tool. They give hottest music downloads, artwork and even lyrics in hopes of getting more people to listen and appreciate their art (music etc.) Sure the big labels will still have the biggest and most profitable names but many rising and talented stars are making it big on the internet. With the many genre’s and areas open for the picking, more and more people are finding the internet as the ideal place to share and show off their hidden talents even getting the big boys to take notice.
YouTube and the many other sharing sites are chock-full of them and many are pleased with the work these talented mind produce even without backing from the big names and labels. More power to these people who have worked hard and deserve the fame they get from such unconventional marketing for it will surely get more and more people thinking on how the future internet would be taking shape. We, meaning all of us who make up the social network that is the internet, continue to play our parts in the evolution of the internet however short it’s history may be. It is considered to be the most influential medium in the area of marketing/ecommerce and it is proving to be the making or breaking ground for many companies who aim to get a share of the internet market. Thought search engines still give tons of useless stuff when searching for stuff, information you need and want is always within a few clicks away thanks to the internet . More power and Peace people for a better Greener tomorrow.
Tags: Free-songs, Future-Trends, Social-Networks
Categories: Mobile Phones, Music, Providers, Resources, ipods
