Free And Legal Music
<div class="IPBDescription">Gigs of legal MP3's!</div> With the recent RIAA crackdown, I know my kazaa lite usage has dropped alot. So I was looking around for some free legal sources of MP3s and found a huge list of them on a Slashdot post...here you go...
<a href='http://www.epitonic.com/' target='_blank'>Epitonic</a>
Lots of free MP3s by smaller artists, you can even stream the whole <b>album</b> for some artists. I suggest Gotan, they sound like a mix of electronica and tango or something.
<a href='http://www.gametab.com/files/monotonik.php' target='_blank'>Monotonik</a>
A music label that releases ALL of their work for free through Bittorrent. Almost a gig worth of free music archives here. You need to use <a href='http://btplusplus.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>Bittorrent</a> to get them.
<a href='http://www.soundclick.com/' target='_blank'>Soundclick</a>
Bit more like mp3.com, not as high quality stuff as Epitonic, but hey its free.
<a href='http://music.lulu.com/' target='_blank'>LuLuMUSIC</a>
Some tracks are free, others will cost you, but the price is minimal ($0.65-1.00 per track).
I've only had about 15 minutes to look through these sites, but what im hearing is pretty snazzy. All of the music is free, and legally downloadable. Im not sure if your allowed to share it on P2P networks or rip the streaming audio, but its still good.
<a href='http://www.epitonic.com/' target='_blank'>Epitonic</a>
Lots of free MP3s by smaller artists, you can even stream the whole <b>album</b> for some artists. I suggest Gotan, they sound like a mix of electronica and tango or something.
<a href='http://www.gametab.com/files/monotonik.php' target='_blank'>Monotonik</a>
A music label that releases ALL of their work for free through Bittorrent. Almost a gig worth of free music archives here. You need to use <a href='http://btplusplus.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>Bittorrent</a> to get them.
<a href='http://www.soundclick.com/' target='_blank'>Soundclick</a>
Bit more like mp3.com, not as high quality stuff as Epitonic, but hey its free.
<a href='http://music.lulu.com/' target='_blank'>LuLuMUSIC</a>
Some tracks are free, others will cost you, but the price is minimal ($0.65-1.00 per track).
I've only had about 15 minutes to look through these sites, but what im hearing is pretty snazzy. All of the music is free, and legally downloadable. Im not sure if your allowed to share it on P2P networks or rip the streaming audio, but its still good.
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<b>Edit:</b> Oh, and is it just me, but is the RIAA really suing based off of your Kazaa username? The subpeonas they're issuing to the ISPs at this point lead me to believe that they are. So defaultuser@kazaa.com it is.
Regards,
Savant
Thats because every time a song is played on the radio, the artist gets some money.
You infringe the copyright once you spread the copyrighted material, or allow it to spread. Downloading MP3s doesn't constitute an infringement, but spreading music you recorded off the radio does.
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True. Some liscensed software and music CDs you are allowed to make backups of. You just can't redistribute them.
lol same here, because for some of those links you prob need a ip masker so the MPAA, or the Music industry doesn't find you and sue you
Thought I'd post to this rather than start a new topic. I recently downloaded <a href='http://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp123.html' target='_blank'>Aleksi Virtu meets Tortsi at the Space Lounge</a> from the monotonik site and it is some of the best electronic music I've heard. I think just about every sample is from a actual instrument and there are a ton of different styles in the album. Gud musik ++.
From a "play it safe" perspective, I'd say no. It's probably not legal. However... are they really going to find out? And if they do, will they bother coming after you? Don't worry about it. It's not hurting anyone, really.
Also, if free legal music is your thing don't miss <a href='http://remix.overclocked.org' target='_blank'>http://remix.overclocked.org</a>. THOUSANDS of Video Game themed MP3's in a very nice very organized layout where you can search by original composer, remixer, game, etc. If you like video game music, this site is a godsend.
C8 has a nice archive of industrial, rhythmic noise, breakcore and IDM'ish music. Perfectly legal, free stuff from artists like Venetian Snares, Somatic Responses, Fanny, Bombardier and Noize Creator, and also some rather extreme stuff like Nihil Fist.
however if everyone on kazaa were to disable uploading, well there wouldnt be a network anymore, and a lot of poor saps dont know how to disable it.
back on topic, i really miss mp3.com the old way, there i found a lot of good new stuff, its just impossible to discover new artists non RIAA artists because they dont get airtime anywhere in the USA.
however if everyone on kazaa were to disable uploading, well there wouldnt be a network anymore, and a lot of poor saps dont know how to disable it.
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Actually, I believe that is a popular myth. As far is the RIAA is concerned, ripping from a stream or downloading from an illegal source are both illegal, as well as taping something off of the radio.
However, every site posted in here so far is comepletely legal and unaffiliated with the RIAA. They allow downloading with the artist's permission. (Now go check out that aleksi virtu! that's the reason I resurrected this!)
Over 60 genres of pretty much any music that uses a synthesizer.
It's a myth in the US, but truth in Canada.