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BitTorrent users in the United States will have to change their file-sharing habits as part of an new agreement between copyright organisations and internet providers. People who share copyrighted works will receive a number of warning messages. After those initial warnings a punishment will be given to those that don’t stop sharing music, movies and software on BitTorrent and other p2p networks.
It appears however that this new and much discussed set of rules against file sharing and free music downloads on p2p networks will start later this year. The much-discussed start in July is postponed because the ISP’s and copyright organisations have failed to meet provisional deadline. In the next months the Center for Copyright Information will start to track down people who participate in Free Music Downloads through P2P techniques.
The deal both providers and copyright organisations made include penalties for those who won’t stop sharing free music and movies. Penalties may include slowing down connections, temporary disconnections and other repressive measures. Those penalties will only be applied to those that don’t listen to warnings send out by providers. After a couple of those warnings providers might sentence downloading copyrighted material.
The plan was first announced under the name ‘Copyright Alerts’. Providers should have started with sending out warnings by the end of 2011. This deadline wasn’t met and it seemed that 1 July was the new deadline for the plan. Now it seems this second deadline isn’t met either. Good news for people who are participating in Free Music Downloads with Torrent files but eventually this new plan will become effective and therefore you might want to stop sharing music throught filesharing techniques.
If you are looking for free legal music downloads you came to the right website! Last week we published a tutorial that featured free music downloads through Epitonic. Today you can read how you can download free music from the Free Music Archive website.
Free Music is of course widely available on various sources ocross the internet. Unfortunately most of this music is considered illegal because the rightful owners of, mostly popular, music want to get paid for their efforts. Luckily there are certain artists and record labels that distribute their music for free through websites like Epitonic and todays featured Free Music Archive. As you can imagine most of this music is not in the charts but is released through those sites so that the performing artist might become so popular that their music is played on radio-stations.
Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is one of those websites that offer free legal music downloads that are made by artists that are not popular enough to be played on the stations. The website isn’t as intuitive as the Epitonic download website. This is mainly because the poorly designed, from a music listening point of view, homepage. The only way you can listen to free music on the homepage of the Free Music Archive is by clicking the small ‘play’ buttons on the right side of the website. Both New Highlights and Most Interesting Highlights are being shown there. The tracks over there can be played instantly.
When hovering your mouse in the top section of the website, right next to ‘browse’ and over the ‘Curator’ or ‘Genre’ tabs, you will find easy entrances to free music downloads for both Genre, Subgenres and Curators. The Curators page is very nice because of all the extra information on the music you are downloading or listening. On the contrary: it is quite hard to find a link to actually download the music.
The ‘Browse by Genre’ tab offers very much different types of music. Right what you would expect we would say . Nice feature is the Browse by Subgenre option when choosing to download or listen to all of the music in one kind of genre. The Free Music Archive download website offers a wide range of Free Music Downloads. The Curators download section is a nice feature mainly because it offers extra information and album covers to the music you are downloading. The browse by Genre section of the Free Music Archive is interesting because of the large amount of free music it offers.
The wait is over: The day before yesterday Spotify finally released their dedicated iPad application. This new application will bring streaming music to your iPad with all the benefits that Spotify offers to their paid Spotify Premium clients.
If you want to try the new application Spotify has made you can download it through the iTunes application on your iPad. The free software carries version number 0.5.0 and is, as you might have read already, specifically developed for iPad. The very sleak design and the modified interface reveal that this iPad application for streaming music is different from other Spotify versions.
The new interface Spotify developed for their iPad version of the software can be seen in the video below. The big difference with both Android and iPhone versions of Spotify can be seen instantly. The control buttons are on the right while on the left of the screen album overs can be seen. Another big change in the music streaming software Spotify developed for your iPad is the enhanced search function of the program.
Last week Spotify released a dedicated application for Android 4.0 devices. That update was necessary because Google design guidelines made changes to the Spotify software for Android imminent. This new version of Spotify for iPad is not related to any new regulations by Apple. Please give Spotify for iPad a try but make sure you are subscribed to Spotify Premium before installing the app.
If you want to listen to and download free music without wondering if what you are doing is legal try the Epitonic website for your free music downloads. On Epitonic, which is featured on our Tutorial on Free Country Music Downloads, everyone can listen and, more imporant, download free music.
Epitonic - Music Downloads
The Epitonic download website can be reached on epictonic.com. After entering the website you will find yourself on the the main page. There you can instantly see the best picks for free music downloads through the Epitonic download website. The best thing on the Epitonic main-page? Every day new music and free music downloads are being shown. Just click on ‘Play all’ or ‘Download all’ to play or download the new and hot songs on Epitonic.
A second way of downloading free music through Epitonic is using the search function the website offers. On every page within the website a small search box can be found on the right-upper hand of the screen. Entering an artist or track might give you a free music download for this artist or song. Please take into account that all of the music on the Epitonic download website is legally available, main-stream music that is in the charts right now might not be available.
Finally Epitonic offers a Playlist function on their website. This function can be reached by clicking the ‘Playlist’ button in the main menu. Hovering your mouse over the Playlist button will reveal sub-options. It is possible to browse by Genre, Artist, Label, Editors or Scenes. Choosing on these options will give you access to tons of free music downloads for this particular choice. The ‘Genre’ suboption on the Epitonic website will give you access to over 40 genres in which lots of tracks are being offered as a free music downloads. The same goes for the other options within the playlist button: Epitonic offers Free Music Downloads that will suit almost everyone.
As mentioned earlier Epitonic offers only legal free music downloads. This means no chart-music of main-stream full albums are available on the free music download website. Luckily the quality of the tracks on Epitonic makes up for that disadavantage. Also, if you search well, remixes for popular music are available on this music download website. If you are looking for a decent website for your free music downloads Epitonic is right for you!
Youtube has lost a court case in Germany questioning whether or not the company can be held responsible for content their users are uploading to the video sharing website. The outcome of this case means Youtube has to start filtering all uploads in Germany. Biggest downside for the company? Youtube has to invest in both hard- and software to make filtering on every upload possible.
Youtube Germany Lost Court Case
Youtube got sued in 2010 by the German organisation responsible for copyright issues. This organisation, Gema, claimed Youtube had to pay to royalties for 12 music tracks that were online on their website. First both parties tried to get an agreement, but Youtube later on stopped the negotiations.
After that GEMA went to court to sue Youtube. As you have read Youtube Germany is responsible for uploads on their website according to a German judge. This judgement opens the door for other organisation and companies in Germany to try to make Youtube responsible for content on their website. Next to that other European countries might try and sue Youtube in the same way.
Youtube is already offering copyright protection. There is one big difference between the current system and this court-order. Copyright owners now have to make sure Youtube can compare user uploads to music those owners upload themself. In the new situation Youtube is responsible for comparison material of copyrighted music. Bad news for people who use Youtube for listening music and free music downloads, Youtube might become a less reliable source for free but legal music downloads because of this judgement.
This article was written as a translation of the German original available here.
The Recording Industry Association of America got it’s moment of clarity when the company stated that innovation is the only way to stop people who are illegaly downloading music. After closing down Limewire, sueing students and crazy anti-piracy laws the company wants record labels to compete with piray.
The statement comes with the usual statistical madness to prove that meisures already taken have been very effective. One of those statistics can be seen in the following graph. It shows the decrease in Free Music Downloads after the closure of the Limewire network.
As you can see the decrease gets even stronger after May 2011. That is the period when Spotify got available in the US. The RIAA doesn’t mention this in their statement which is weird: while opening up legal ways of enjoying your favorite music is a huge succes RIAA prefers mentioning their own action which isn’t exactly about enjoying music the way the public wants it: easy, online and free if possible.
Illegal Free Music Downloads after Closing of Limewire
According to the RIAA record companies and the entertainment industry should innovate, experiment and work together with technology partners to offer music fans a broad array of legal music downloads. The exact quote the RIAA makes can be read below.
“The single most important anti-piracy strategy remains innovation, experimentation and working with our technology partners to offer fans an array of legal music experiences”
The guys at Torrentfreak, from which this article was taken, were very clever when they saw the word ‘remains’ in the statement of the RIAA. Only once innovation and experimentation were mentioned in relation to Free Music Downloads from the internet. Instead both the RIAA and the record companies were enforcing: not the best way to get what you want or offer your customers what they are asking for.
Interesting to know is when record companies and the entertainment industry will actively pursue their goals with innovation. Maybe a decent deal with Grooveshark is a good start? We will see but for now it might be a step in the right direction.
Usenet still is one of the best places for free and legal full album downloads. For music downloads throught usenet proper Usenet software is needed. One of the most popular download programs for Usenet is NewsBin Pro. Today Release Candidate 8 of this free software was released.
If you want to try this software for Free Music Downloads throught Usenet with Newsbin Pro a free download for the software can be found here. After a 10 megabyte download and a quick and easy install Newsbin Pro is ready to go.
To use Newsbin Pro for Music Downloads through Usenet you will need a Free or Paid Usenet plan. Next to that you will need nzb files. These files contain the location of the different parts of your download on Usenet. After loading the NZB files in Newsbin Pro and entering your Usenet login and password the software will download, unpack and check the music that you want to download.
Interface of NewsBin Pro RC5
For the best Usenet experience a paid plan is advisable. Free plans are offering only a couple of days retention. This means your downloads will not complete because the necessary files are not available anymore. Paid plans, on the other hand, usually offer 365 days of retention. Some plans will even let you download from Usenet over 1000 days back in time.
Again, if you are looking for reliable, user friendly, and easy to use Usenet software please try Newsbin Pro. Also make sure to have a decent Usenet plan with enough retention.
**update**
Only 2 days after RC8 the final version for Newsbin Pro build 1877 was released. Find that new version for this great Usenet Software here (direct link to executable).
Spotify has made sharing your favorite music through your blog or website more easier with a new feature on their music streaming service. With the new Play Button it is possible to share any of your favorite tracks on Spotify with one simple click. The music you want to share then can be added to your blog, website, Facebook or Tumblr page.
The way Spotify is offering free music sharing is much similar to the way Youtube or Hulkshare is doing that. Owners of websites can embed Spotify music streams on their page or profile through an iframe that can be embedded through html. Visitors to these pages now can press the Spotify Play button to start their own Spotify program to listen to the music on their own computer or portable device.
Spotify doesn’t offer music streams on websites to unregistered users: you have to install Spotify software and register to their music streaming service before you can listen to any of the music your friends are sharing through the Spotify play button. Luckily registration to Spotify is free and the Play Button will work with Spotify Free accounts. Unfortunately the Free Plan Spotify is offering doesn’t work on mobile devices.
A couple of big companies already promised Spotify to add the play button to their website. Unknown is whether Spotify will pay those companies in return: adding the Play Button might bring Spotify new customers because the software is needed to play the music. Will you start using Spotify Play to add free music to your blog or website?
If you are looking for decent software to convert the music on any Youtube video to a free music download take a look at our new tutorial. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Free Youtube to MP3 Converter software.
The software makes converting Youtube videos to mp3 music files very easy. In just three simple steps the software converts the soundtrack on any Youtube video to a free music download that is available on your computer. The software is able to convert Youtube videos to MP3, OGG, WAV, AAC and a lot of other music file formats.
Welcome screen of Youtube to MP3 converter
Biggest pro of the software is that created music can be played on almost any device. MP3 Files are supported by iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android tablets and of course mp3-players. If your player uses a different file format for playing music, the converter software probably can convert music from Youtube to a free music download in your desired file format.
Please again: use this software for free music downloads from Youtube wisely. Downloading music from Youtube that isn’t your legal property might be illegal. Also using this Youtube to MP3 converter software might be illegal in your country.
Grooveshark is one of the bigger Free Music Streaming services worldwide. The company had one legal agreement: record label EMI got paid for offering their music for free through Grooveshark. Today EMI stopped the agreement because of unpaid bills, Grooveshark failed to pay $100.000.
The agreemenent between the two music companies started in 2009. They both stated that Grooveshark had to pay because of offering music that belonged with artists signed at EMI. For every track that was listened to on Grooveshark the company had to pay a small amount to EMI.
The start of this year was a very bad one for Grooveshark. A couple of record labels sued Grooveshark for offering music without paying for it. EMI joined the companies that were sueing Grooveshark and there it was: a big problem for Grooveshark.
Question remains what will happen now. Grooveshark always has been a company surrounded with copyright problems. The upload-function on the site, which can be used by end-users to upload and share free music, made that even worse. The coming months will be of very high importance for both Grooveshark and the people that use that website for free music streaming.
One of the possible options might be that Grooveshark is forced to close their service. That will be a great loss to people who want to listen and download free music from the internet. It will also force people to find their free music downloads in other, less controllable, sources. That might not be what record companies want either.
. Nice feature is the Browse by Subgenre option when choosing to download or listen to all of the music in one kind of genre. The Free Music Archive download website offers a wide range of 
The agreemenent between the two music companies started in 2009. They both stated that 