AmarokLiveCD Bundled with FREE Music
AmarokLive has just released a fully functional, but striped down Linux LiveCD that is bundled with FREE music, web browser, irc client, and many other common tools. It mainly features the incredible KDE based Amarok audio player. It contains a very diverse selection of tracks, ranging for classical to electronic-house type beats. I think it has something for everyone, and of course you can re-master the CD to put all of your own music on it for use at a party for instance, and i imagine, but have not confirmed you could use a DVD for this process as well. I put this cd in, it booted to a fully functional KDE desktop with amarok already open ready to play the provided playlist as well as a konquror session with help and additional info about the cd and the music.
The music comes from a recording label called Magnatune, which states that half of every sale they make goes to the artist. They also support a very radical(for the music industry) business model of being very open with the rights to their artist’s music. Allowing for ‘fair use’, remixing, and best of all, NO DRM. The also print their CDs On-Demand, as well as having an online store.
This is a record label taking a step in the right direction, and i think we all need to should show our support for this label. If for nothing else, so that other labels will see that a more open business model can be a successful one.
