SpiralFrog to offer free legal downloads

[Gareth]

Link: http://www.spiralfrog.com [spiralfrog.com]

Originally Posted by SpiralFrog

SpiralFrog is a new online music destination, offering ad-supported legal downloads of audio and video content licensed from the catalogs of the worldââ‚ƚ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s major and independent record labels.

Could this be enough to stop people from using the underground services such as Soulseek, Limewire, etc...?

[danielf]

It depends... What are ad-supported downloads? View ads while you download? Download mp3s with ads in them? Get popups when you play music you got from their site? Or is it ad-supported streaming?

I would think they'd need quite a bit of advertising to make it profitable, and I'm not very keen on ads. Mind you, I hardly download music anyway (just the odd track). I prefer to buy the cd...

no it wont stop anything.
p2p used by kids earns me a fortune in fecked pcs that come to me to fix so long live p2p lol

[nicke261192]

you cant transfer them to a cd either http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34036

Originally Posted by nicke261192

you cant transfer them to a cd either http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34036

Unless, of course, someone finds out a way to do so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5294750.stm

[Paul K]

Of course someone will find a way around the protection and restrictions..... just ask MS lol