IsoHunt adds 10.000 Free and Legal Albums
Written by Ben Jones on June 21, 2008Despite being ensnared in legal proceedings with the MPAA, isoHunt is continuing to grow. Adding fuel to the ’significant non-infringing use’ argument is their latest partnership, with the Creative Commons music distribution site Jamendo.
When BitTorrent sites have come under attack by media groups and their battalions of lawyers, it’s usual for them to pull up the drawbridge and keep the site going as is, and try to get the case over with as soon as possible. The other option is to close down and hunt for a settlement, but isoHunt, like its other big-site brethren, hasn’t. Despite a legal campaign that’s now over two years old, it continues to grow and add features and functionality.
One of these new developments has been the addition of increasing numbers of Creative Commons (CC) licensed material. Creative Commons media is licensed by the creator, to be shared – usually with some restrictions – and is the same license used by TorrentFreak. It’s not a niche license, instead it is becoming increasingly popular, with Nine Inch Nails having released their Ghosts album under a CC license earlier this year.
With this is mind, isoHunt has announced a partnership with Jamendo, a site that deals in Creative Commons licensed music. Reaching the 10,000 album milestone only days ago, content available on Jamendo is growing quickly and when you grow, it helps to be able to get the content out there. This is why isoHunt decided to partner with several BitTorrent sites. isoHunt’s owner, Gary Fung, has been a long time supporter of Creative Commons and public domain works, and has stated that there is a strong future in Creative Commons material at isoHunt.
Laurent Kratz, CEO of Jamendo told TorrentFreak “Jamendo uses the Creative Commons licensing scheme to keep the rules very straight forward : copy as much as you can eat, the artist, the right-holders are ok. The new thing about partnering with a torrent portal like isoHunt, is that Jamendo has started an editorial work on top.”
“We receive up to 500 new albums per week, from more than 60 countries in the world,” Kratz said. “In order to maximize the interest of millions using torrent search engines every day, it was critical to only highlight a subset of all the albums we receive every day. It’s not about discriminating one band from another, it’s about getting anonymous BitTorrent fans to Jamendo, and discovering unsigned bands from everywhere in the world.”
Jamendo is also partnering with SumoTorrent, and torrent.to, and has been experimenting with mininova. In addition, their torrents are also available through Vuze. What better way to “stick it to the **AA” as so many of our commenters put it, than to ignore their memberships product, and use sites like this instead.
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First!
i think?
Congrats, your e-penis has now gotten smaller. any way, ignoring the muppet above for claiming first.
Good on Isohunt to add them ^_^
Fuck you.
number 2 I know!
LOL anyways this is great for the artists.
“IsoHunt adds 10.000 Free and Legal Albums”
lol,they added 10 albums ? =D
@ Jun 21, 2008 at 13:46 by Anonymous
you know in developed countries the “.” is the delimiter to better see multiple k values.
the “,” is used to delimit values less then 1 full value
go go isohunt
great thing
hate MPAA and RIAA
@ 4: So the UK, one of the worlds largest economies, is not a developed country? I’m not sure thats what you meant to say…
Jamendo is a private, commercial business as I understand it. Not only that, but apparently they keep all advertising revenue and provide compensation for artists only by placing a donate button on their page.
Why are they worth supporting more than any other source of free music?? THEY ARE COMMERCIAL! Whats the point of supporting free music if you only get it from a private company? Fuck that.
the SI standard is that 10k = 10,000 ; NOT 10.000 which means 10 …
Cool! With an additional 10k songs (giving 3mb to each song on average) thats roughtly 3tb that IH can claim is part of its traffic… its up to the pricks who are suing them to show that the traffic flowing from IH is 400 movies rather than 10,000+ fully legal songs.
Been reading on the CC and i see that the public can modify and use your work to a certain degree, does anybody know if its allowed for example to be added as background music on your site? i mean if you have ads and are making money off your site does that mean you are commercial and cannot use it? or is that also included as “public use”?
Cheers!
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@5,6,8,10
There are 2 (that I know of) formats. Neither is right or wrong, just standard in different places, and your country isn’t better than the country that does it the other way. Get over your stupid nationalism.
Good for IsoHunt. This is the direction that bittorrent sites should take.
When the Free Software Foundation (founders of GNU) decided they wanted software to be free, they didn’t just start bootlegging copies Windows. Instead, they encouraged people to make free software and only promoted that, while ignoring proprietary software. The result: Linux, Apache and all sorts of decent free software. If FSF/GNU had just started bootlegging other peoples’ music against their wishes, they would have been shut down a long time ago and this innovation would have never happened. The bittorrent community should learn from this.
wtf, my commect
Good job, guys. Just keep up the good work. :)
IsoHunt has always been around as a solid meta-search engine for torrents, and every step forward to promote and fight for P2P is a brave one worth an applause..!
They got mine..bravo isoHunt! Keep it up!
fw: Neither Linux nor Apache are projects of the FSF or GNU. Also you should learn the difference between distributors and creators. Actually IsoHunt is even less than a distributor. Last but not least, personal computers wouldn’t be as wide-spread and popular if it wasn’t for illegit copies of DOS and later Windows.
It is excellent, I’ve heard some very good music on there.
Gd for ISO-hunt I say. If that is a lupe-hole from them may it be a gd a trial for them. I hope all goes well for ‘em. Actually I think the best music should b from third parties download.com did + now ISO-hunt whether they were forced to do it or not I think it’s a gd challenging idea that has mostly all benefits. Look it as it from the long run… they could become a much better site all together with more target audiences.
sounds interesting. good for isohunt =)
. = world
, = u.s.
The only problem is:
I have to download those albums in order to know if they are worth the download in the first place.
That’s what you get for not being mainstream …
qm2003: o rly? Go to the site then and listen to it with the flash player
@9
Jamendo is indeed a commercial company but they share advertising revenues 50/50 with the artists, so it’s a fair deal. If it wasn’t, the artists wouldn’t upload their music there in the first place!
, = u.s and canada or just nothing
like 10 000 or 10000
I prefer the space, makes more sense. “,” belongs in a sentence and “.” denotes a number that isn’t a whole to me.
“,” ie) I went to the store, and so did my friend.
“.” ie) 51.25 = 51 1/4
Anyway, doesn’t matter. Personal preference, I know how to interpret them all.
Good job for IsoHunt, independent artists need advertising and this is a good way for it to happen. Music should be shared, not something for suits to make a profit on.
There are also thousands of public domain movies available for the taking.
IsoHunt has the right attitude. Just ignore the **AA’s. They are quickly becoming impotent, irrelevant, and helpless.
And yes, I make Dan Glickman my bitch each and every day. :P
Piracy breeds consumerism. Allow me to use your product or sample your media, and if it’s good, you got my money. Heck, I’ve seen hundreds of movies I wouldn’t have had they cost money and became a follower of many artists who I’d never venture out to discover otherwise. I see it as good for the economy.
“9 Jun 21, 2008 at 14:14 by bertie gibbons
Jamendo is a private, commercial business as I understand it. Not only that, but apparently they keep all advertising revenue and provide compensation for artists only by placing a donate button on their page.
Why are they worth supporting more than any other source of free music?? THEY ARE COMMERCIAL! Whats the point of supporting free music
if you only get it from a private company? Fuck that.”
You are they A-Typical whining freetard who thinks everything should be free an noone should have to pay for anything. More’s to the point, YOU shouldnt have to pay for anything. THE MUSIC IS FREE. Its free to download, its free to copy, its free to give to your friends and fellow freetards, what the fuck right have you got to complain about Jamendo being commercial, considering your contribution is a big fat ZERO?
free music? a dream become true, take that RIAA
Its all about intimidation by old men living high off the hog
This will all end with cyring
who is going to listen to all of that shitty music though? Crappy artists are all about forming armies of fake diggs.
I’m flashing back to mp3.com in 1998. Rolling stone was waiting for the first real web-born musician. They had to wait a few years but finally someone ran around on treadmills with some awesome incredible music playing. It was mostly those treadmills though. I know I came.
@30:
Nine Inch Nails is also shitty music, you’re right. Live with your time, man! Free music is not just a geek thing anymore.
The problem with “Legal” usually means the stuff nobody wants to listen to to begin with. Arrgh.
JT
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When are people gonna realize that the internet has changed EVERYTHING? No longer do musicians have to go to a record label to get their music published, packaged and sold. They can do it all themselves, and keep all the profits. In my opinion, this is EXACTLY how it should be.
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