Touting its newest service as the world's largest free music service, Last.fm has signed deals with record labels to pay royalties towards their catalogs of music. The four big labels have all signed as well as over 150,000 independent labels. Users of this service will be able to listen to each Track, streamed, up to 3 times for free. After that, if the consumer likes what they hear, they'll ... [ read the full article ]
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I am assuming that this is the whole track instead of the random 30 second snippet that I-Tunes gives.
For their sake, they should have income through advertisements as well. I doubt this will float for more than 2 years depending if it depends on people linking through the site. If they see that they can get it through I-Tunes or Amazon, they may come back later to purchase it directly through those sites, skipping LastFM.
On the other hand, if you truly love the site, you could always link through it everytime you buy.
I hope they move towards more of a DRM protected download model, the way Spiral Frog has, I very much like that system, and would like to have more variety!
According to the article, this site doesn't send you the music. It sends you to another site that you that allows you to pay for and download the music. Then, that site pays LastFM. What this is allowing you to do is hear it before you buy it. That's it. and at that, you can only hear it 3 times before you're cut off. :-( Not good if you want to share what you heard with friends.
Originally posted by handsom: I hope they move towards more of a DRM protected download model, the way Spiral Frog has, I very much like that system, and would like to have more variety!
Originally posted by handsom: I hope they move towards more of a DRM protected download model, the way Spiral Frog has, I very much like that system, and would like to have more variety!
Why would you WANT DRM?
I would have to agree why drm. would not drm free be better??
