Looking beyond Pandora’s box

Many of you may remember the awesome Pandora music service. If you’re north american, you can actually still enjoy it, while the rest of the world suffers a massive IP address ban.

Luckily, there are several alternatives to Pandora’s boombox, the most known of which is Last FM: Imeem, Youtube music playlists, Anywhere FM… But recently I got pointed in the direction of a very interesting one: Jamendo.

Jamendo hosts a heck of a lot of music without shitty restrictive licenses. Not only is most of the music very high quality, but it’s also free for download. That’s right, at no cost. You can burn whole albums onto discs, copy them to thumbdrives, share with friends, share with strangers (via P2P)… almost anything you want to do, you can, in virtue of their Creative Commons licenses.

You can also, of course, donate some money to the artists you like. 😉

We can’t thank you enough, Lessig!