By Ernesto at TorrentFreak.com
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users, the FCC has now announced that it will order Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic.
What does that mean?
Better connectivity for all FrostWire users.
Greetings and thanks to Mac100% 2008.SPRING Magazine from Japan for writing about FrostWire.
Here’s the note, someone please translate for us, (let’s hope it was a good review)
FrostWire #7 – Week ending March 09 – 253,102 downloads in one week
We keep getting more and more downloads each week.
Thanks to everybody that downloaded.
Please help us Spread the word
We’ve just found out we were featured on LifeHacker.com, one of our favorite blogs.
Cheers, and thanks to Adam Pash for writing about us.
We are starting the year with one of the best news for the FrostWire Community. At the end of 2007, Warner Music Group announced that they’d be selling DRM-free songs, we didn’t know that Sony BMG would act so fast upon this, we’re glad this happened.
According to BusinessWeek:
Sony BMG would become the last of the top four music labels to drop DRM, following Warner Music Group (WMG), which in late December said it would sell DRM-free songs through Amazon.com’s (AMZN) digital music store. EMI and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007.
Why is this great news for the FrostWire community?
The acceptance of DRM as a failure by the big 4 helps legitimize FrostWire, since FrostWire features a “Buy” button which enables all FrostWire users to purchase DRM-Free music from the Amazon.com’s digital music store. The effectiveness of the buy button to find legal downloads on amazon depends on the availability of music, now that the major labels are offering their content in a DRM-free fashion you will be able to find pretty much any main-stream song with FrostWire’s “Buy” button.
Best of all, songs are priced under $1, and as we said DRM-Free, which means you can play the song you bought anywhere. I wonder what Steve Jobs must be thinking now.
Cheers to the Mashable.com team for writing this note about us.
Also FrostWire makes it as the #4 of the Top Downloads of the year at CNET, LimeWire made it as #1
On November 20th 2007, FrostWire gets a very positive review by CNET’s download.com, and makes it to the home page of download.com as the Killer Download of the Day
Their review makes us very happy, at the same time, it pushes us to include new killer features that LimeWire may not be able to have in the near future, however if you follow LimeWire’s code base, it seems they’re working hard to release a web based Music Store that will be included on an embedded browser inside their client, probably in the fashion of the online iTunes store, but probably powered by P2P (we hope, if they stick to their p2p philosophy and hopefully without DRM so that files can be shared or bought, at least this worked beautifully for Radiohead).
It’d probably be a smart move by the LimeWire store to include the possibility to buy their music from outside their site (with commissions on sales of course), that way, other music sites could trigger purchases based on search, as well as other p2p clients such as FrostWire.
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