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.
[…] Music downloads Add We7 – Peter Gabriel’s ad-supported online music store – have received tremendous support from a very unlikely source. From April all of Sony BMG’s back catalogue will be available for free streaming from the free music downloads site. […]
[…] what’s this: bad news for paid-for music downloads. Many providers are starting to offer music downloads and music steaming from their websites for free. We7 is a shining example of such a service: set up […]
[…] number of big industry players have begun to enter the world of free music downloads. Key to a few of these talks is music sharing Daddy Napster: discussions with O2 and Vodafone to […]
[…] What others are saying: We7 Sony free music downloads Free music downloads […]
Add A Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.