SpiralFrog, a service offering free music downloads in the US and Canada, has announced a licensing deal with EMI to offer songs from that label for download. EMI is the second of the four major labels to offer content through the ad-supported service, which already features music from Universal Music Group. SpiralFrog plans to add more than 1 million EMI tracks over the next few weeks.
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The first few lines I thought this sounds / looks good, but alas its only another method of control. They are only moving the goalpost's again. DRM, licence's, certain media players only. Ah so its free music with a catch. They will get a percentage of the ad revenue and still provide a means to stop format shifting and prob if you want to format shift then you can buy the tune again. I am old enough to have (certain bands) the record album, the 12", the tape and the bloody cd. What more do they want from me. I say all music should be free with no strings attached. If a torrent site can possibily make millions a year in adds(but once they pay the server bills not make much, so they are not profiting from the site) then surely the licence holder can make a fortune from their torrent site with no restrictions. After all the labels would only need to up the song / album once then the community will take care of the rest. Whats wrong with these people, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to work it out. Imagine a torrent site ran by the labels, with clean songs everywhere no spy/malware and a ratio tracker to weed out the h/runs. Yeah sounds to good to be true eh!!!
If it did happen I wonder how busy it would be. I bet they would need a state of the art data center to cope with that traffic.
