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FrostWire 2010 T-Shirt Design under Creative Commons

Kademlia — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:51:00 +0000

After a long break in t-shirt availability, few weeks ago FrostWire has released a new t-shirt design. The t-shirts are currently available in the FrostWire store and come with 10 extra stickers and free worldwide shipping.

But that's not the whole story! With the spirit of open source, sharing and collaboration, the FrostWire team wanted everybody to be able to share the image, print their own T-shirt or do whatever else they would like to do with it, so they licensed it under a Creative Commons license.

The image is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License, which means you can share the image, reprint it, etc - even for commercial purposes - as long as you attribute FrostWire to it and don't alter the design. Plus, to allow you to do whatever your imagination tells you to, we've linked a vector file to the download link above, so scaling & resolution is not an issue.

If you would like to be able to download other formats/sizes, let us know in the comments section below, and we will do our best to provide you with a download link.

If you happen to reuse the image, for any purpose, please make sure to send us a picture, a link, whatever it might be to kademlia [!at!] frostwire.com - we would love to see where opening the licensing gates will take your creativity.

2010 FrostWire T-Shirt Design by FrostWire is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at contact@frostwire.com.

Don't pay for FrostWire, avoid scams

Glacius — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:05:03 +0000

Song "Lens Flare Sky" by AudioGlider
From the Cologne Commons 001 compilation
Licensed under Creative Commons

Mike Falzone licenses his music to MTV

Kademlia — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:29:17 +0000

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Mike Falzone is one of the first artists we promoted on the FrostWire welcome screen. In the short time we featured his 'Fun with Honesty' album, he got well over 30,000 downloads on P2P. Now it's our pleasure to let you know that he has just licensed some of his music to MTV and his songs will appear in the upcoming seasons of The Hills, The City, Made and Parental Control.

Congrats Mike! We are looking forward to hearing more great news from you!

Screenshot of the free album promotion on FrostWire

Sean Fournier publishes Musical Slide Show made of fan taken pictures

Glacius — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:07:43 +0000

Sean Fournier was the first artist to be featured on FrostWire when FrostClick/FrostWire promotions start last November 2008. His album has been downloaded by at least 36 thousand FrostWire users.

Related Links
Sean Fournier's Official Web Site

Georgia Wonder opens up for Remix with Creative Commons

Glacius — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:40:45 +0000

We just found out from the Creative Commons blog, that Georgia Wonder has made available it's song "The Girl You Never Knew" available for REMIX under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License via the Mixable website.

The song has been made available on WAV and AIF file formats, you can get the vocals and backing separately at Mixable.

This is great news, specially for those of us that would listen to that song and think "This song could be remixed into an awesome dance hit". Let's see if someone can make a nice dance mix happen.

If you're not up for Remixing but you want to listen to Georgia Wonder, check out our previous post to download their free EP "Hello Stranger".

Georgia Wonder among Top 20 of The Pirate Bay's Music Torrents

Glacius — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:15:16 +0000

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This is a screenshot of a Twitter update made earlier today by the band Georgia Wonder, which agreed to promote their free ep here on FrostClick.

We think they've done well over 35 thousand downloads so far, but since the torrent is being tracked by The Pirate Bay, we can't tell exactly how many downloads it has received so far since this number is not made public by TPB. (If you guys do track download numbers internally, it'd be awesome if you made an exception and told us)

Thanks to the FrostWire community for sharing this awesome album, and thanks to TPB for their world class free torrent tracking service.

Universal Indie Records shares their promotional experience on the P2P network

Glacius — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:21:36 +0000

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As of this writing Cartel's album has received over 29 thousand downloads, currently over 100 people are still downloading (at the same time), and over 850 are still actively seeding it even though another artist is being promoted.

From each weekly promo, we learn new things, and we'll learn more if other artists choose to share their experience as nicely as Universal Indie Records has done it. We'll be updating our Promo Contact page with new tips thanks to Cartel.

Here's what they had to say on The FrostWire Promotion

I must be doing something right, lol. No sooner did I decide to go the “netlabel” route and add the Creative Commons disclaimer to my site, I was contacted by the guys at Frostwire. For those of you who are not in the know, Frostwire was created by a few of the programmers responsible for Limewire who didn’t like the way the company was heading. They branched out and created a fork of Limewire and named it Frostwire (those familiar with the open source community know this type of thing happens all of the time). Anyway, it seems they came across my music on Jamendo and approached me about featuring my music in their application for a limited amount of days. The way it works is that once someone fires up the Frostwire application the promotion featuring my album appears and enables the user to download the album with one click. Do you realize the importance of having your music pushed in front of thousands of people? None of that “Come check out my Myspace page” crap. They even interviewed me for their blog.

The only thing I regret is not setting up my Twitter page BEFORE the promotion started. I’ll admit that I really didn’t understand the purpose of Twitter but I definitely do now. If you don’t have a page on Twitter and you’re trying to expand your fanbase, set one up immediately.

So anyway, my promotion has run its course and after all is said and done 26,769 have downloaded my album. Many have visited my site, joined my mailing list and Twitter page, and have requested me as a friend on Myspace. In the span of a few days, the awareness of my project has expanded exponentially. I have to give the Frostwire guys credit because in a day and age when most people are trying to make money off the backs of indie artists, they offer this service for FREE when they could have easily charged for something like this.

All this has taught me that you need to attack your promotional efforts on as many fronts as possible because you never know where an important opportunity will arise. If it wasn’t for Jamendo, Frostwire wouldn’t have found me. Now that I’m on Twitter, MySpace and Jamendo… maybe I’ll finally get around to getting a Facebook page up and running.

Thanks to Universal Indie Records for believing in Creative Commons and Filesharing, and thanks to the FrostWire community for sharing. We'll keep trying to bring you the best content during 2009.

Who is Cartel?
Cartel has been in this business for a while. He learned how to produce from Chyskillz (who did the first Onyx album) and Large Professor, he ran with Randy Allen and Jam Master Jay for a short period of time, he produced the first tracks that Cadillac Tah (of Murder Inc) actually rhymed over.