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Peter Gabriel Backs The Filter, a New Media Recommendation Site

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Apr 15th 2008 at 5:53PM

Peter Gabriel Backing Media Recommendation Site The Filter

Genesis founder and all around pop-music genius, Peter Gabriel, is staking some of his fortune to a recommendation and search engine called The Filter. Until fairly recently, the Filter has operated primarily as a music discovery service, but it is now getting ready to re-launch as a one stop shop for suggested Internet viewing.

The Tom Waits referencing homepage for the Filter is sparse on details, but the screen shots suggest an iGoogle- or Netvibes-like interface featuring customizable lists of suggested content including Web sites, YouTube videos, movies, and music based upon your stated tastes, previous searches, and existing music collection.

Gabriel believes the using personal taste as a navigation tool is what is going to give The Filter a leg up on traditional search engines like Google.

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Free Music Downloads, Sans DRM

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 22nd 2007 at 1:23PM

Free Music Downloads, Sans DRMWE7 is a new download service offering free music with no DRM copy protection whatsoever. What the hell? How is this possible? By tacking a "relevant" advertisement onto the beginning of each song. The service is backed by pop legend, former Genesis frontman and Mr. Sledgehammer himself, Peter Gabriel. The service hopes to bring those who would normally download from an illegal sharing site or service back into the legal fold by offering songs for free without restrictions on sharing, but still getting the artists get paid. Users can still choose to buy a song at the regular price of £.99 ($1.97) to avoid the advertisements all together. But, if you're cheap or poor and just want your free music, you are not stuck with the ad's forever. After four weeks you have the option to remove the advertisements from the song. The bad news here? You can only remove the advertisements from 20 tracks a month.

Though all of this is still up in the air, at the bottom of WE7's We site is a passage that basically says just because this is how it works now, doesn't mean this is how it's going to work tomorrow.

WE7 does have its first major partner, V2, home to Bloc Party, Grandaddy, Cold War Kids, Gang of Four, Tom Ze, and Underworld. The label's entire back catalog will be available for free via WE7 in the near future.

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