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 ElleyKitten · 2006-08-29 03:30 · Score: 0, Troll

You don't like Godsmack? 3 Doors Down?
No.

Seriously, I looked through the whole wikipedia list, and there's not a single band I like.

Man, what do you listen to? Barry Manilow?
I like Snow Patrol, Moth, Utada, Subways, Relient K, Ani Difranco, etc. This whole music for ads thing sounds interesting, but wake me when they have some good music.

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