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Band Invites Music Copying

Posted by Zonk on from the distribution-to-the-people dept.

R C writes "The BBC is currently running a story about the band Carbon Silicon, including former members of The Clash and Generation X. The report claims that the band is encouraging fans to download tracks, demos, and works in progress from their website . Talking of re-capturing the culture of recording a tape to lend to your friends, they believe that the free availability of their music won't affect sales, and that the availability extra material like tracks in development will attract and engage even more fans."

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  1. OSS by fembots · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What we need now is Open Source Songs. Tracks in development are released and fans can chip in and make those songs better.

    --
    Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
    1. Re:OSS by Kynmore · · Score: 5, Informative

      That's why the Creative Commons was conceived. Check it out here

  2. Nice but not unique by Knome_fan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For example recently I discovered http://magnatune.com/ which is a whole label following the same idea.

    I think people should really encourage this and btw. they have some pretty nice music there.

    (No, I'm in no way affiliated to them, I just like the concept and hand a fun afternoon recently listening through their offerings.)

  3. Internet Archive Open Source Audio by Xtifr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Link here. They've only got about 6800 recordings so far, but it's only going to get bigger.