Universal to Offer Music for Free

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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I wonder..

[MImeKillEr]

..what format the ads will be in. Java? Flash?

We'll have to see if Mike's ad-blocking hosts file will strip them.

Here's a listing of Universal's lables and a partial list of their artists.

Too bad the jazz artists suck, with the exception of Herbie Hancock.

Both links pop in new browsers.