Wednesday, May 26, 2004

There was a time about 4 years ago when people were going crazy downloading MP3's because they were freely available on illegal download services like Napster, nowadays this is a very dangerous path to tread due to the possibility of heavy fines and in extreme cases, prison. Well, thankfully from the internet pirate trade came some good and we have services like Napster to thank for it. I am pretty tired of paying $35 for a CD in Australia, before I left the UK it was about £14 a CD when most of that is for the packaging and distribution, so I see this new trend as a good thing and I just have to get over the initial mental problem of not owning the original CD, a similar problem I had with Vinyl.

Anyway enough rambling there seem to be new services announced every day first was Napster, then Apple's ITunes Store, then Coca Cola Music. Also in Australia there is Telstra's BigPond Music site where you get discounts for having a BigPond Broadband account and now James blogs that Charity organisation Oxfam are launching an online music service where 10p of every track purchased goes to charity. read more.

Jon 9:15 AM Permalink