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across the universe

Space Aliens First to Get DRM-Free Beatles Music?

You may have heard that at 7pm EST on Feb. 4, NASA plans to blast The Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into deep space in order to serenade otherworldly beings hundreds, thousands or millions of light years away with our very best pop music. I have several problems with this. More »

9:57 AM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Wilson Rothman
17,169 views, 48 comments

freedom costs a buck-oh-five

Peter Gabriel's We7 Music Download Service, Free With "Grafted" Ads


Peter Gabriel is a human-rights champion, a global entrepreneur and a technology aficionado, not to mention the owner of lots of prized (and copyrighted) content, so it's not surprising that he's drawn to that cruel mistress, online music downloading. In search of fairness, Gabriel's company We7 has launched an ad-supported free-download model, or, as they themselves put it:
With a passionate team, a breathtaking vision and the 'pat.pending' technology to 'graft' relevant advertising/messages to music and video downloads, we're all set to create a music download revolution.

Jump for details and, oh yes, free samples. More »

12:00 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,937 views, 13 comments

Latest by CryoMax: This'll last about a week, until people realize there are MP3 editors out there and you can simply chop off the ad after you've downloaded it. My friend ran this on his Gentoo Linux box: mp3splt -s It automagically chopped the more »

home entertainment

Official: EMI to Release Music DRM-Free

It's official: Record company EMI announced that it will offer digital rights management (DRM)-free downloads of its entire digital repertoire, and added that Apple's iTunes store will be the first to sell them. However, the Beatles' music won't be a part of this deal just yet, but EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli acknowledged that "we're working on it, hopefully soon." More »

10:01 AM on Mon Apr 2 2007
By Charlie White
2,563 views, 39 comments

laptops

OLPC and Free Culture Team Up To Give Free Music to Poor Kids

As if providing affordable computers for millions of children wasn't enough, the OLPC team is working with Freeculture.org to give them free music as well. The new endeavor, the Free Music Project, is going to "collect and record" music for children, which will be distrubted for free to kids along with the OLPC laptop itself. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Mar 2 2007
By Jason Chen
1,330 views, 4 comments