Universal to Offer Music for Free

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @02:55AM from the not-free-as-in-anything dept.

wild_berry writes "The BBC reports that Universal Music has signed a deal to make its music available for a free and legally-licensed download. Available from a new music site called SpiralFrog, the deal will allow users in the USA and Canada to listen to Universal's music, which Reuters' news site reveals is paid for by targeted advertising, but no details of possible community or playlist sharing features of the SpiralFrog service. Is the immunity from litigation enough to make up for having targeted advertising on each page and not being able to write the music to CD or a portable player?"

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Re:Good News ... but .... by morgan_greywolf · 2006-08-29 03:12 · Score: 4, Funny

You don't like Godsmack? 3 Doors Down?

And Elton John is arguably one of the most popular recording artists ever.

Man, what do you listen to? Barry Manilow?

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Re:"The big companies"? by russ1337 · 2006-08-29 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

download songs for free and instead rely on advertising for its revenues.
What the article fails to mention is the adverising is the artists singing about a vendors product.....

I cant wait for Elton Johns new single : "Lucy in the sky with diamonds from Jarad"........