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ItalianoJamendo has gone Platinium !
Jamendo, the free music community, has distributed freely and legally more than one million albums using the popular peer to peer technology called BitTorrent.
For sure, the Gold or Platinium record threshold depends of the country and Jamendo acts globally, anyway, we are very proud that our trackers have crossed the million mark.
This figure is the minimum indicative number of the total of complete albums we have distributed so far. Peer to peer technology is not a matter of control and BitTorrent is not the only peer to peer protocol, we also support the eMule/eDonkey technology where it is even harder to have an idea of the number of distributed albums. Projecting the traffic of our mldonkey servers, we believe that we can add 50% more, bringing us to the level of one million and an half of complete albums distributed in 2 years.
The aim of Jamendo is not to define charts or the Top 40 of the best Creative Commons Licenced music. But if you ask, the most downloaded album of all time on Jamendo is Silence - L’autre endroit . This album was released on Jamendo in January 2006 under the free art licence and has been downloaded more than 11600 times.
Today, more than 2800 albums are available on Jamendo. This means around 2000 hours of free music ! The albums are downloaded at the rate of 200.000 albums per month.
Unlimited, free, and legal.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
congratulations!!
March 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Considering the accelerating rate of growth, I’d predict double platinum in about a year. Excellent work, Jamendo team, you have created something admirable.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
We got dugg!
Thanks to all the diggers, hope you’ll find tons of music you like on Jamendo!
A few funny comments from
http://digg.com/music/More_than_one_million_albums_legally_downloaded_with_BitTorrent :
“In related news more than 1,000,000,000,000,000 albums illegally downloaded with BitTorrent.” ;-)
“Dude, that’s like CSS text header heaven!” (referring to our page titles that make heavy use of CSS ;-)
“Your an idiot. Sharing files is entirely legal otherwise the web wouldn’t exist, ftp wouldn’t exist, sms wouldn’t exist, xml wouldn’t exist.”
and so on… let’s continue the debate!
March 27th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Congrats guys, that’s great news.
And I agree with bmccosar, reaching double platinum shouldn’t take long. Get the champagne ready ;)
March 28th, 2007 at 12:01 am
U ROCK
March 28th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Another good one on digg :
“Jamendo is not a form of protest. Its inevitable. If you’re a beginnen artist and you’re not giving away your music for free, you’ll never get there.” :)
March 28th, 2007 at 2:11 am
I just started using this site and it is pretty cool. I just think there shoudl be an easier way for people to find specific and top music on this site. Maybe add ajax voting to it? Just be pretty cool if we could all share what we like, and by voting for stuff it can figure out what we like and recomend things that way…
March 28th, 2007 at 5:40 am
Nice~!
March 28th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Great - I love this site.
Although I often use anonymous p2p (kerjodando / itsDargens) to download files.
The issue is usually one of quality control and jamendo really rocks with this.
My fave site.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
It’s the first time I ever hear about Jamendo! Being a big proponent of CC and open formats and Torrent p2p, im totally thrilled! Be sure I will pass the word around. Soon this thing will be huge!
congrats for your first 1 mil, its surely not the last
CB
March 30th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Let’s show everybody that there is another way of music publicity. Say yes to the free music!
\o/
March 30th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Free music doesnt sucks
:: I love Jamendo ::
March 30th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Shouldn’t it be PlatiNUM? :)
March 31st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
-> This song about Platinum. I like it. Let’s download
April 29th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Tremendous work in getting the first million under you belts. Class always tells! Onwards and upwards, I say!
July 13th, 2007 at 2:13 am
i like this music!
jamendo cool!
October 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Tremendous work in getting the first million under you belts. Class always tells! Onwards and upwards, I say!
December 16th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Wow great more power to you guys!
December 29th, 2007 at 12:32 am
I like Music :):):):)
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