The MP3 Player Blog

Here’s some interesting articles touching on download services and the Sony PSP:

Download DRM-Free Music with CommonTunes and BitTorrent
Comunity-based media distribution service, CommonMedia, has announced that it is offering up DRM-free content on their sites CommonTunes and CommonFlix through BitTorrent distribution. What does this mean? It means that there’s another alternative out there for consumers who aren’t happy…

Sony PSP As Your Primary Digital Audio Player
Let’s face it: at $200 or more for a really good digital audio player these days, we want as much bang for our buck as we can get when laying down that much cash. Luckily, there are more and more…

Here’s some new articles I’ve just published from Carol on the various types of music download services that you can use to fill up your players (some legal, other’s not).

• MP3 Ripping from CDs
• P2P File Sharing
• Legal MP3 Music Downloading

Hope these shed some light on some issues!

Looks like KaZaa is the new Napster, as record companies focus their cross-hairs on them. By a court order, this file-sharing network is being forced to modify its software to prevent piracy.

The problem is, most users have shifted from KaZaa to other platforms; just how users of Napster moved on.

Honestly, this sounds like a cycle where you cut off 1 head and 10 spring up in it’s place.

Now if record companies were serious about providing cheap songs in a legal fashion online with few listening restrictions, then things would began to look up. They’re focusing on a side-effect and not the actual problem.