Free legal music downloads in time for Christmas
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Advert-powered 'iTunes killer' takes to the stage It had to happen. A new legal music download service will be launched in December which will offer MP3s free at the point of delivery. New York-based Spiralfrog says its site will be fully funded by advertising.â¦
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FreeiPods.com is a service that offers users free iPod music players if they sign up for promotions and refer users to the services.
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Universal Music, home to artists such as U2, The Killers , and Audioslave, will make its catalog of recordings and music videos available for free on an ad-supported web site launching later this year, the site's operator said yesterday.
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Buying music from your computer over the internet is cool, but buying music from the portable player in your hand is cooler. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The latest version of Hymn strips DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store, enabling playback on non-iPod gadgets.  In Listening Post.
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In this era of high-speed Internet access, the back-to-school season features college students streaming back into their broadband-wired dormitory rooms, booting up their computers and letting gigabytes of digital tunes flow like a waterfall -- and for many students, the question of whether the downloading violates copyright laws plays second fiddle. However, a legal, affordable alternative has a chance to thrive in this potentially huge market, or at least that's what the digital music business and the universities are hoping.
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For Napster to Go users only Napster UK is giving away free MP3 players to all new subscribers of its portable music service.â¦
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Amazon.com and Pepsi toay announced a new promotion where consumers buying Pepsi products will be able to download DRM-free digital music from Amazon MP3.
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You can now download the next generation of the worldâs most popular music and video jukebox. iTunes 7.4. Available as a free download later today, iTunes 7.4 includes a larger viewing area for movies and TV. In fact, video now fills the entire iTunes window, offering you a richer, seamless playback experience that looks better than ever. You can also now rate entire albums in addition to individual songs.
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The latest version of Hymn can already remove DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store to enable playback on non-iPod players.  In Listening Post.
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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iTunes signs on PayPal, just in time for the holidays.
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Music label Universal has taken steps to allow consumers to listen to its artists legally for free by signing an agreement with new music store entrant SpiralFrog. The service will launch late this year and is based on advertising.
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Amazon MP3, which only sells music without digital rights management copy protection, now has licensing deals with all four major music labels. Watch out, iTunes.
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Virgin has become the latest company to launch an online music download service, but UK music fans will have to wait before they can give it a try.
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Digital music start-up Lala.com is now offering free music downloads--for iPods only.
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The streaming site offers free tunes from major and indie labels.