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Why Magnatune is not evil
Perfect audio quality: you get CD quality audio WAV files, as well as super-high quality VBR MP3s, AAC, and open source friendly FLAC and OGG formats (sample download page)
No DRM: No copy protection (DRM), you can do what you like with your music
Listen to everything: all our albums can be listened to in their entirety before you buy
Download everything: a monthly membership (where you pick the price) allows you to download our entire catalog--no limits.
Good music: we work with artists directly, not with record labels, and all our music is hand-picked. On average, we accept 3 out of every 100 submissions
MP3s everywhere: Our MP3s play everywhere: iPods, Creative, SanDisk, iRiver and every portable device that supports MP3s
Musicians get paid: 50% of your purchase price goes directly to the musician, not to labels and their lawyers
Album art: every album includes high quality album art (in both Adobe Acrobat and 300DPI JPG formats)
Give to your friends: We encourage you to give 3 copies of any music you buy to your friends
Name your price: you choose how much you want to pay for the music, and 50% of your choice goes to the artist
Downloads and CDs: all our music can be bought as a download or a delivered-by-postal-mail CD
Creative Commons: All our 128k MP3s are some-rights-reserved Creative Commons licensed
Remix friendly: Tons of our music, acapellas and samples are available for Remixing at CC Mixter
100% legal: you're not breaking any laws, Magnatune is completely legal all over the world
Artists direct: we sign contracts directly with musicians, so you can rest assured that we can legally license music to you, and no middlemen get in the way of the artist's royalties
Podcast-legal: non-commercial podcasters can use our music for free
Free review copies: music reviewers (web, print and radio) can get free copies of all our music
No major labels: we have absolutely nothing to do with major labels or the RIAA
Financially support Open Source: we financially support several open source projects such as Amarok and Rhythmbox
APIs for programmers: our APIs and data feeds are available to academics (who write many papers about us) and open source programmers (see for example, the Slim player plugin).
Licensing: all our music can be licensed for commercial use instantly and online and without additional permissions or any other form of censorship. We license more music online than anyone else in the world (over 2000 licenses in our 5 years of business).
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