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Oxfam Launches Music Download Service

Posted by timothy on from the good-cause-and-human-interest dept.

rahaydenuk writes "The BBC reports that Oxfam is backing the Big Noise Music website, which launches on Wednesday and will offer 300,000 songs for download. 10p of the 75p or 99p charge to download the songs will go to Oxfam and the service will be available across Europe."

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  1. Re:And uh... by edoc · · Score: 5, Informative

    The artists have given consent that their songs can be used and distrubuted in this medium. The artists that will allow themselves to be distributed this way are doing so because they want to help Oxfam, not so much as to make huge lump somes of cash. The artists should be congratulated for not being so utterly greedy and helping out such a charitable organization.

  2. Please be nice the oxfam box. - it runs on redhat by akbkhome · · Score: 5, Informative

    As one of the people who help maintain oxfam.org.uk - please be nice to the server - The server runs linux/apache/php combo (although the main pages are plain html).

    Unfortunatly the main server is scheduled for an upgrade - to a loadbalanced combo, rather than the current single box. (which has not happened yet) as it is currently quite heavily loaded. - especially when UK wakes up..

    Dont forget there are nice big Donate Now buttons on all the pages. (It's a very good cause) - with great people who use open source alot..

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