Comments on: SpiralFrog inks music deal with Universal

Start-up to offer Universal songs for free, hopes to make money by showing ads to users as they download music.

[TV James]

Good Name

At least the spiral part.

I predict the frog will spiral the drain and SpiralFrog will not become economically viable.

[imacpwr]

Don't forget, frogs have warts..

Will the "free music" (with strings attached) be fully uncut or will it
come packaged like television does in the states, riddled with
advertisements? Once someone finds a hack to remove the ads and
the Windows Media Audio format is cracked, then you can see the
end of copy protection and an end to "free music" (with strings
attached).

[imacpwr]

Like a frog, this will croak..

Will the "free music" (with strings attached) be fully uncut or will it
come packaged like television does in the states, riddled with
advertisements? Once someone finds a hack to remove the ads and
the Windows Media Audio format is cracked, then you can see the
end of copy protection and an end to "free music" (with strings
attached).

[Dalkorian]

just what the world needs!

To be inundated with advertising regularly in order to listen to
music. As if I am not flooded with ads regularly already - on radio,
TV, public transit, billboards, hell just look to the right of this
comment!

Sorry, I'd rather give my business to the PIRATES!! I have no respect
whatsoever anymore for those PIRATES that claim to be the music
industry. Let them sue me when I'm dead, I just don't care
anymore. To hell with them all.

[pmbx]

just like video clips on Fox and CNN

The same reason I don't watch video clips on these news web sites
is the same reason this kind of business plan will fail. I HATE sitting
through the VIDEO ads just to get to meager video content. You
know $0.99 is a SMALL price to pay to not have such an irritation in
life as ads.

[smaesquire]

Pirates, eh, matey?

I wonder how much of the ad revenue will actually go to the artists. I think the way most recording contracts work, the artist won't even see any royalty revenue from this because it's not considered a sale. Personally, I like sites like www.zaziggy.com where the artist actually gets half the ad revenue for an ad sponsored download. No pirates there!

[tonyspencer2]

Company Greed

Well this is the prime obstacle at the moment. Universal is all right,
but there is no mechanism for paying the artists.

They also forget that you might have your laptop or MP3 player
away from an internet connection for more than a month, like in
the middle of Africa or the Australian Bush, or on an oil rig...

Just goes to show that all the recording companies are interested in
is their expense account lunches not the starving artists.