In August, 2006, YouTube announced its plan to offer ‘every music video ever created’. For a while, it seemed as if this would be an achievable goal as one by one, Google (the owners of YouTube) reached agreements with the big music groups. But one of these agreements ended as a dispute just before Christmas and as a result, a large number of music videos have been removed from the site.

Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’, for example, is no longer there. This is unfortunate and inconvenient for me because I used the song as part of an activity on teflclips recently. Anyway, all of this has caused me to look for alternative sources of music online.

The best site I’ve found is called We7.com whose slogan is ‘Don’t steal it, We7 it!’  This site has a lot of stuff that you can downstream but not download. That means that you need online connection to listen. The catch is that in between each track, you will hear a micro-ad that lasts 2 or 3 seconds but you get used to it and that’s how it makes it’s money and keeps everything legitimate.