The concept

“jamendo is a new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music.

On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses. In a nutshell, they allow you to download, remix and share their music freely. It’s a “Some rights reserved” agreement, perfectly suited for the new century.

These new rules make jamendo able to use the new powerful means of digital distribution like Peer-to-Peer networks such as BitTorrent or eMule to legally distribute albums at near-zero cost.”

That’s just the surface of this excellent site.

It’s is a very exciting development, I think, and with a large community it will only get more interesting over time. Check it out.
update
To download on jamendo you must have a BitTorrent or eMule client. I’ve tried Azureus and Limewire without success because of firewall problems which I don’t understand. So be warned if like me you haven’t done this sort of thing before. I presumed it would be a breeze.

Needless to say I’ve looked up the help files but it’s double dutch to me.
If anyone has a simple solution, do feel free to leave a comment.

[via Digg Check comments there for possible issues with BitTorrent, eMule]
Jamendo

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