Oxfam's Charity Download Service

Posted May 24th 2004 8:43AM by Brad Hill

Streaming and downloading music for a good cause, a cause that goes beyond label profit—that's an idea with legs. British music service OD2 has partnered with global hunger-relief organization Oxfam to build a new music service that launches Wednesday of this week. Here are the specs—

30-second stream samples are free.
Full-song streams cost one pence.
Full-song downloads cost 75 pence (no info yet on DRM).
300,000 tracks.
Coldplay is helping promote it.

It's called Big Noise Music.

Reader Comments

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1. I tried to get the same deal for the same model with OD2 in 2003. I can prove it. I developed this model to raise funds for inner-city schools in the USA and also help out with digital divide projects for SA.

Posted at 5:58AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Walter Hough

2. It only works with M$ proprietary software. Not even a mac. M$ is a corporation with an extremely unethical history, and an unlikely choice of platform for a progressive organization like oxfam to use.

The website only supports users of M$'s windows operating system, who also use M$'s bug ridden internet explorer browser, and M$'s windows media player.

All files are 'protected' by digital rights management, which makes it difficult to listen to the tracks on different computers, whilst not making copying and redistributing all that difficult for those with the time or inclination. Essentially it will mean that you don't have control over the music you've purchased.

I can't use it, even if I wanted to!

Posted at 5:58AM on Dec 19th 2005 by charlie

3. I tried to get the same deal for the same model with OD2 in 2003. I can prove it. I developed this model to raise funds for inner-city schools in the USA and also help out with digital divide projects for SA.

Posted at 5:58AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Walter Hough

4. It only works with M$ proprietary software. Not even a mac. M$ is a corporation with an extremely unethical history, and an unlikely choice of platform for a progressive organization like oxfam to use.

The website only supports users of M$'s windows operating system, who also use M$'s bug ridden internet explorer browser, and M$'s windows media player.

All files are 'protected' by digital rights management, which makes it difficult to listen to the tracks on different computers, whilst not making copying and redistributing all that difficult for those with the time or inclination. Essentially it will mean that you don't have control over the music you've purchased.

I can't use it, even if I wanted to!

Posted at 5:58AM on Dec 19th 2005 by charlie

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