“It has come to our attention that the state of online music has been sabotaged by the fat hands of corporate involvement. These changes have led to a world in which your enjoyment of music is controlled and billed by the minute.” ~Anonymous
WIRED—In a move sure to attract attention from the music industry, a small group of coders claiming to be part of Anonymous is putting together a social music platform called Anontune. The rather ambitious goal: Create a service that seamlessly pulls up songs streaming from all around the internet.
On the ever-sprawling internet, music can pop up anywhere—Tumblr pages, blogs, The Hype Machine (to name but a few). Almost any song is available at any time, whether posted by legitimate sources or uploaded by fans or pirates, and Anontune would tap into that rich reservoir.
AnonTune itself does not host any music files. It simply searches for music on YouTube, Soundcloud, and other sites. The development of AnonTune never stops, and in the future many more sources will be added!
The stated central aims of the service’s creators are to provide a flexible, open platform for users to listen to music without having to pirate it or face legal repercussions—read Anontune's white paper here (.pdf). True to form, users of the service can largely remain anonymous.
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