Visio Talk

Yes, the old Napster is long gone, but free music downloads are there for the taking by the MTV generation and beyond. The large music corporations including UMG, EMI and BMI have come to the party with SpiralFrog Free Music Downloads where you get the music for free, sure, but the site is financed by ads so you are obliged to sit through adverts while the songs download. Also downloading is not always that straightforward. How can I be polite about it? Frankly, there is a lot of wading through stuff and the chances of discovering new artists in this way are limited at best. I’m betting that ad-supported free music downloads are not going to be with us for long. Great music is synonymous with great freedom, and ad-supported download sites don’t offer that. There are amazing alternatives and I am going to direct you to one of them: it’s called Ares. I thought I’d do this because my Google search for music discovery returned 23 700 000 pages and it could take you a while to go through them… Using Ares Ultra Free Music Downloads is quite a blast. It’s totally legal, firstly, because it’s based on open source software, which means anyone can use or improve it, and it’s based on P2P file sharing protocols, which means the network is the sum of all the computers out there using Ares. Talk about egalitarian! Go to Ares to read about Free Music Downloads including info about open source, P2P file sharing and what makes Ares so special.

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