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"Jamendo, the P2P music-sharing site, reports that they have distributed, freely and legally, nearly 1.5 million albums; 1 million through BitTorrent alone.  Jamendo supports other P2P protocols including Kazaa and eMule/Donkey.  Their distribution through these networks has been included in their estimate for their global \"Platinum\" reach.  \nJamendo promotes themselves as a free and legal place for artists to distribute their songs. Users can rate and review artists as well (see initial write-up here).  As Jamendo operates under the Creative Commons license, they've provided a way for artists to broaden their reach while retaining full ownership of their content.\nUsers can remix content from other members on Jamendo, helping to usher in the new era of artists rights and the erosion of the middleman. Jamendo also offers a revenue sharing option for artists that would like to earn money from the ads placed on Jamendo's site.  \nTheir recent growth is in part due to Digg\u2014they are heavy promoters on the bookmark ranking site.  Otherwise, this landmark of distributing such a large number of albums via the Internet is quite a feat, and speaks to the attitudes regarding the consumers and the musicians, and how they've met a happy middle ground.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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