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  • 9.6.06 EMI joins Universal in Spiral Frog hijinks posted in General

    EMI is adding their catalog to Spiral Frog’s offerings, where music will be available for free download at a bizarre price. I elaborated on my feelings about this in Spiral Frog is a bunch of bull frog. So I won’t go into rambling on it again. Over at the AJAX Blog I grabbed this quote: The […]

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  • 9.2.06 The music war is on. DRM shields up. posted in marketing

    Samsung has joined the fray, along with Microsoft, Myspace and Spiral Frog/Universal to compete with iTunes. More options, more music, right? DRM issues aside, here’s my biggest problem. With the exception of Myspace, they all seem to be planning proprietary formats that can only be used on certain brands of players. […]

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  • 9.1.06 Myspace and DRM-Free Music posted in marketing

    This article at Mashable just popped up around 10pm CST. Myspace is apparently planning to sell the music of 3 million unsigned bands without DRM protection, in MP3 format. This could be more of a competitor for iTunes than the whole Spiral Frog deal. Just legitimizing DRM-free MP3’s once again seems […]

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  • 8.29.06 Spiral Frog is a bunch of bullfrog posted in General

    Spiral Frog is the service through which Universal will offer their entire music collection for free download. (Here’s the link to the Press Release). With a catch. It’s not only advertising based, it’s advertising forced. Spiral Frog will offer a desktop downloader for Windows Media Files (no iPods!) that can be listened to […]

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