Listen to Music for Free

The website Deezer launched the first free and legal music on demand website, artists and music majors are paid thanks to the ads displayed on the deezer.com website. The catalog is huge, but the MP3 encoding quality is variable ranging from 192Kbits/s for recent albums/tracks to only 64Kbits/s for older albums/tracks. Of course, ads are displayed, such as prominent links to the local iTunes Store, but it will also give you the chance to create your own playlist, get organized, with an iTunes-like interface (even some iTunes icons are being used on the website).
If the website is delivering streaming only music, one of our team members showed us how to easily recover the MP3 source file with entirely completed tags. For legal reason we will not reveal the way to hack the system, but for sure some people will quickly develop application to record the streaming sources. If such offer will always have to fight vs. hackers, it is a good initiative as it will offer consumers a web-based iTunes-like interface for listening to their music while traveling from one location to another. It will also offer a way to listen to music on corporate computers where most employees do not have the administration to install any software or application to play music. It is a true alternative to subscription-based music listening offers currently available, especially in USA.
The entire PR is avialable here: http://www.deezer.com/press/cp_deezer_220807_en.pdf