Music downloads have now become easier than ever with the move of major record labels to sell music in digital format. In Europe, laws which prevented the “ripping†of audio files into digital format has lost ground when it was taken down(which might be a good ideal for it was not enforced anyway). A newcomer into the myriad of P2P download sites is Qtrax is a welcome and . . .
Music and Movie sharing sites – Wolves in sheep’s clothing???
I recently read the article on squidoo regarding the activities of these sites that say they offer free and unrestricted downloads of all types of music and movies. The article says they are scams and believe me many are for as long as I can remember in writing for this blog, I’ve come across tons of them. Some sites offer free downloads at the beginning in exchange for . . .
7Digital
One of the Giants in the paid, digital Music downloads business is an old player in the game. Ever since it was established in 2004 in the UK it has grown exponentially as well as the many other technology based companies also owned by Benchmark Capital (which also owns eBay by the way along with just about major players in the tech world). Their site offer’s whole album . . .
Stage 6 and DivX
Stage six is a site with tons upon tons of free videos and other free stuff available for download. Stage6 is a division of DivX the well established pioneer of the DivX Video technology as a site to showcase the stuff the stuff is made of. Thought the site is maintained as a blog, it has a lot of video from the site and its staff as well as those uploaded by members of the . . .
Blubster, EzTracks and Kazaa
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 . . .