Ad-Supported Free Music Downloads Doomed to Failure?

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 1, 2007 @04:43AM from the no-love-for-ads dept.

madonna writes "CNET extensively explains why the new We7.com download service — which offers ad-embedded free music downloads without DRM — is doomed to failure. 'This service absolutely, categorically will not succeed. You can quote us on that. It's true the best way to combat piracy is to provide a realistic and affordable alternative, and free is certainly affordable. But music downloaders are not going to switch to using a service that costs the same as using BitTorrent or Limewire, but comes with abominable disclaimers or advertisements.'"

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Re:Removing the ads by saur2004 · 2007-05-01 04:59 · Score: 2, Informative

Isnt Audacity free for anyone to use?
How are they going to stop you using something like that?
My suggestion by JoelMeow · 2007-05-01 05:21 · Score: 2, Informative

http://www.mptrim.com/ There's a few other programs out there that can chop up mp3s without losing any quality. I downloaded a couple of mp3s from we7 and they only slap an ad on the beginning of the song, so it's easy to chop off if you don't want it.