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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
New website
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Here's a new music website that may well interest a lot of you. You buy tracks/albums and an amount goes to various charities.
 
 
from www.sky.com/news

Website Launches 'Ethical' Music Downloads


6:40pm UK, Monday June 21, 2010

Elizabeth Scott, Sky News Online
A new music download website that donates money to charity every time you buy a track is aiming to tackle the problem of music piracy.



The new music download website gives half its net profit to its charity partners

Fairsharemusic.com is described by its co-founders Jonny Woolf and Lee Cannon as "ethical music downloading".

It has over 8.5 million tracks for users to buy.

And every time a track is bought, half of the company's net profit goes to one or all of the company's charity partners.

Among those charities are Amnesty International, Great Ormond Street and the British Red Cross.

The founders, who have worked in the music industry for over 20 years, wanted to find a way to encourage people to support artists legally rather than turning to illegal download sites.

"Music has the power to motivate and inspire people," creative director Mr Cannon explained to Sky News Online.

"We wanted to find a way for music to do good."

He went on: "Most of the time people do not think they are doing anything wrong.

"It won't happen overnight but we need to educate the younger generation, inspire and motivate them so they understand the effects it has on new artists at the beginning of their careers.

"It's important we work with people in a postive way."

Fairsharemusic sells all the latest music releases

Fairsharemusic.com sells all the latest music downloads

Fairsharemusic's commercial director Mr Woolf said half of its 8% net profit will go directly to charity.

So, when buying a 99p track, around 4p will go to charity and 32p will be donated from a �7.99 album.

Mr Woolf estimated that Fairsharemusic's charity partners would receive a combined total of around �100,000 a year.

Founding partners of Fairsharemusic are Amnesty, British Heart Foundation, British Red Cross, Centrepoint, Friends of the Earth, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Oxfam, Sue Ryder Care, Teenage Cancer Trust, NSPCC and WWF.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Great idea! Top post, LG!!
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I had a good nosey and their search engine is pretty quick. Caught up with some Rory Gallagher, Mike Oldfield, Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore, not the TV kids programme).
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