Directory - Digital Music & Movies

Sponsors

• TrustyFiles. Personal File Sharing.

Industry Associations and Groups

• ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union
• Alliance for Digital Progress
• American Federation of Musicians
• Boycott RIAA
• Canadian File-sharing Legal Information Network
• Chilling Effects Clearinhouse
• Click the Vote
• Creative Commons
• DCIA. Distributed Computing Industry Association
• DEMO Digital & Electronic Music Organization. Online music sales certifications.
• DigitalConsumer.org
• Digital Media Association
• Digital Songstream
• Downhill Battle. Fight major label domination of music.
• EIA. Electronic Industries Alliance.
• EFF
• IEMA. Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association
• Independent Online Distribution Alliance
• IFYPI. International recording industry association.
• IP Central. A think tank for the Study of Digital Property.
• IP Justice
• Future of Music Coalition
• MPAA. Motion Picture Association of America
• MediAgora
• NARM. National Association of Recording Merchandisers
• Net Coalition
• Open Content Network
• P2P United. Trade group for P2P developers.
• Pervasive Computing
• Public Knowledge
• RespectCopyrights.org. From the MPAA.
• RIAA. Recording Industry Association of America
• StopPoliceware.org. Fight the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act.
• Subpoena Defense Alliance
• USIIA. US Internet Industry Assn
• Webcaster Alliance

Industry News

• AzOz - Mac Wizards Music
• Cnet music center
• Copyfight
• DigitalConsumer.org News
• Digital Media Wire
• ExtremeTech. Digital audio Primer.
• MusicAlly
• MusicDish
• mi2n: Music Industry News Network
• MP3Newswire.net
• Online Reporter
• PaidContent
• Wired News
• Yahoo
• ZDNet: MP3 Central, File Swapping, Audio Software, Players, Devices

Blogs

• Big Hack, The
• Blogcritics.org
• BoingBoing, Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, Xeni Jardin
• Bowen Bowen. John Dumbrille.
• Dan Gillmor
• Kottke.org, Jason Kottke
• Magnetbox
• Master New Media. Robin Good
• MBN24.com. Digital Music & Technology blog.
• Nth Octave. Rafat Ali and Om Malik.
• Ohear.net, Stephen O'Hear
• On the Record, Ann Harrison
• Popcultablog, Dave Pell
• Release 4.0, Esther Dyson
• SellOut Central, Brad and Ryan
• Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold

Free Music Directories

• Creative Commons
• Internet Archive
• Kuro5hin post
• Red Ferret Journal

Companies and Sites

• 321 Studios. Software for copying your DVDs.
• AllofMP3. Licensed music from a Russian site for 5 cents a song.
• Apple iTunes. Popularized pay per song or album.
• Audio Lunchbox. Open MP3's for $1 each.
• Broadjam. Metajam software for building band web sites and manage songs, photos, metatags, and more.
• BuyMusic. Think Apple iTunes for Windows. From buy.com
• CD Baby. Great indie music site. Digital distribution contract review.
• Clear Channel Sucks. CC controls 60% of the rock programming in the US plus much more. Can we spell 'monopoly'?
• ClearPlay. Santizes movies played via PC.
• CowPimp. Share files with iTunes
• DMusic. The oldest online digital music community and artists home.
• Donate My Music Check. Send your CD Price Fixing check to the EFF.
• Download.com Music. Took over old MP3.com's artists. Free music downloads.
• eMusic. Digital music site. At one time a leading indie and then bought by Vivendi Universal.
• easyCinema. Brit innovation brings dynamic pricing and no frills to theaters to Hollywood's displeasure.
• Epitonic. Cutting edge music, including free MP3s.
• Fightcloud.com. Free! ($5 shipping) CDs.
• Global Music Project. Artists can upload their music for exposure AND help raise money for world causes through donations.
• Go-Kart Records. Free Album Downloads!
• IUMA. Internet Underground Music Archive, the 1st indie site formed in 1993.
• Indie-music.com. Portal includes over 20,000 music industry contacts.
• Intertainer. Movie site dormant with anti-trust suit against industry.
• Jive Player. Proprietary files package music and videos with commercials.
• Just Plain Folks. 25,000+ musicians, writers, and others in the music biz.
• Links to tens of thousands of legal music downloads
• LuLu. Buy and sell digital content direct and in hard form.
• Magnatune. Online music distributor's slogan: WE ARE NOT EVIL.
• Movielink. Movie industry-sponsored site.
• MP3.com. Relaunched by Cnet as a general music portal
• MP3Gain. Software analyzes & adjusts mp3 file sound.
• MP3tunes. 88¢ songs in unprotected MP3 format
• Muse.net. Turn your home PC into a streaming video or music server.
• MusicBrainz. A community music metadatabase with metatag software.
• Musiclink (Fairtunes). Pay artists directly.
• Musicnet. Recording industry-sponsored site.
• Music Now. Full Audio provides file swapping with licensed files.
• Music Rebellion. Prices goes up or down based on user demand.
• MP3.com. Another indie digital music site bought by Vivendi Universal.
• MP3 Formatter. Software manages file names and ID Tags.
• Napster. Same name, different service. Now for legal downloads, from Roxio.
• Netflix. Unlimited DVD rental subscription service.
• Opsound. Grab ye some open source music.
• Orchard, The. Largest on and offline independent music distributor.
• Pressplay. Recording industry-sponsored site, now owned by Roxio.
• RIAA Radar. Check if an album is produced by a RIAA member.
• RipDigital. Convert your CD's into MP3's for about a $1 each.
• Sell Your Songs. Song purchasing and licensing network.
• Soundclick. Music site features both signed and unsigned bands with free legal MP3s.
• Sound Flavor. Recommendation software.
• Steal My Music. Free CD'S, just pay for shipping.
• Vtechmedia. Create or join communities where you can buy and sell digital media.
• Weed. Licensed music format offers 3 free plays.
• Wippit. Online music seller with P2P technology.

CD Rippers. Convert your CD's into MP3's for about a buck each.

• MusicRip
• PacificRip. Free pickup/delivery in San Fran.
• RipDigital