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Fans of free music, listen up! Sony have joined the Dark Side. They have teamed with a company that allows free streaming of its entire back catalogue! Interested? You should be. This is a significant advance for the music industry as a whole and an absolute revolution for music downloads.

A one-time staunch opponent of anything that resembled a music download, Sony BMG have agreed to supply their entire back catalogue for users of Peter Gabriel’s We7 site.

A lot of us love music downloads and, frankly, it’s been getting more and more hairy with many of the big players in the music industry clamping down and suing the ‘perpetrators’ who engage in music downloads. Now Sony have sanctioned this aspect of the industry, and this is a landslide victory.

There is some concern that all this free music will affect the sales of legal music downloads, but clearly this isn’t Sony’s – not We7’s – concern.