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It's not free. They force you to register. This is free advertisement at HN. Not HN.
by coretx 7y ago
It's not free. They force you to register.
This is free advertisement at HN. Not HN.
- crooked-v 7y agoYou have to create an account, but you don't need to sign up for a subscription, so yes, it's free.
- coretx 7y agoThe exchange of one service for the other has a somewhat different legal status & definition at many parts of the world. However, it's not "free" anywhere. Neither "free" as in "Free beer" or "Free" as in freedom.
- sjwright 7y agoEveryone's idea of free is different. Even if they didn't force you to register, someone would complain that it's not free unless they license it as Creative Commons CC0 and pay to host high speed direct download links for all the content in ultra-high bitrate open codecs.
- twirlip 7y agoThat was the Free Music Archive which was started under the auspices of the storied freeform radio station WFMU. Costs for hosting and bandwidth eventually killed it, but it's been limping along under KitSplit, and now Tribe of Noise.