Buzzin Music Blog

This years gift of choice from many bands is a free mp3 that can be down loaded from their various sites and pages across the net.
The good people at XFM UK have put together a list of some of the indie tracks available, with direct links to the sites.
The list includes the following artistes:
OceansizeDiamond Hoo [...]

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Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who was recently fined $220,000 for illegal file sharing, is to appeal against her loss.
Interestingly, the woman was convicted for allowing access via Kazaa to shared music files on her PC and not for illegally downloading said music files.
In Spain in the last year or so a precedent was set [...]

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A 30 year-old American woman, Jammie Thomas has become the first person to be taken to court and prosecuted for illegally downloading music via a PC. She has been fined $220,000 (£110,000).
Since 2003 various record companies have filed 26,000 lawsuits over file-sharing, which the music industry has led to a decline in sales. But [...]

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For the past decade the music industry has been concerned with free distribution and downloading of MP3 files on the internet, especially on peer-to-peer sites that share folders among its members. The first many heard of this was when Metallica took Napster to court in 2000 when they discovered that a demo of their [...]

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