The Weed Files to Host CD Baby's Catalogue

Press Release Author = The Weed Files

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = The Weed Files partners with CD Baby to host the first batches of Weed files of the largest independent music seller on the Web.

Press Release Body = Sainte-Foy, Québec, December 22, 2004 – The Weed Files partners with CD Baby to host the first batches of Weed files of the largest independent music seller on the Web.

Close to 70000 Weed files will gradually be made available on www.weed-files.com starting at the end of December 2004.

Downloadable at no cost, Weed files can be played 3 times for free and shared legally. Once bought, the files can be played at will, burned to CD, and transferred to a portable player.

"At a time when the industry seems to have lost touch with the needs of the artists it represents and the listeners it claims to serve, the Weed service emerges and proposes a model that gives control back to the artists, rewards listeners who play an active role in the propagation of the music they like, and can even provide the ingredient that's missing in P2P networks," said Christopher Stewart, owner of The Weed Files. "Weed enables people to do for music what blogs have enabled them to do for information, and gives them a way to support content creators directly."

To date, more than 7,000 artists have had their music "Weedified" including Chuck D, Heart, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Built to Spill and Kristin Hersh.

About The Weed Files

Sainte-Foy-based independent content provider and distributor The Weed Files devotes its activities to the thriving of the Weed community since September 2003.

About CD Baby

CD Baby handles online sales and distribution for close to 80,000 independent artists and labels. Since its foundation in 1998, CD Baby has sold over 1 million CDs to customers worldwide and paid over $11 million dollars to musicians.

About Weed

Weed is a service of Shared Media Licensing, Inc., a group of musicians and software developers based in Seattle, Washington. Weed encourages file-sharing and makes payments to musicians while at the same time rewarding file-traders who respect artists' rights.

Web Site = http://www.weed-files.com

Contact Details = The Weed Files - Christopher Stewart
http://www.weed-files.com
418-657-5039

CD Baby – Alex Steininger
http://www.cdbaby.com
503-255-2569

Weed – John Leighton Beezer
http://www.weedshare.com
206-352-9894