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theholycow
02-03-2010, 09:45 PM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10436882-261.html
That said, FreeAllMusic is no Pandora. The company's business model more closely resembles SpiralFrog's, which also gave away downloads. SpiralFrog's songs, however, were wrapped in digital rights management.

According to a press release, FreeAllMusic says it will give users DRM-free MP3s that are paid for by advertisers. The only catch is that users must agree to watch "one brief video commercial" per download.

SpiralFrog was a site that let you download DRM-encrusted WMA files of mainstream music, legitimately. Their catalog was puny.

http://freeAllMusic.com is supposed to be similar but you get DRM-free MP3 files.

I signed up to receive an invite, we'll see how it works out.