Free-access video, music, audio and other resources
From Digital Economy Act Info
This page lists sites providing free, legal content of various kinds, for:
- download (saving onto your computer), and/or
- streaming (live viewing or listening without saving to your computer for future use).
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Video
- YouTube The internet's biggest resource of streamed video.
- Internet Archive has more than 250,000 movies and other moving images.
Music and audio
- Spotify A legal music streaming service, based in Sweden, but licensed for use in the UK.
- MySpace These days most bands have a MySpace page where you can listen to small, streamed selections of their music.
- Internet Archive has over 75,000 live music concerts and more than half a million audio recordings.
- gogoyoko Free streaming and a download service bringing you Fair Play in Music.
- Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads Web page documenting lots of ways of legitimately accessing free music (a little outdated, but still contains useful info).
Books and texts
- Project Gutenberg has a catalog of over 30,000 free eBooks legally available for download.
- Internet Archive has over 2 million texts available for free download.

