SpiralFrog Offers DRM-Laden Tracks Incompatible With Most People’s Portable Media Players
Sep 17th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players 
Troubled free music site SpiralFrog made its debut today, after months of delays and management changes. The site, which lets visitors download music and videos free of charge, hopes to find success with a business model based on offering DRM’d music to users via an ad-supported site.
“We believe it will be a very powerful alternative to the pirate sites,” said Joe Mohen, chairman and founder of New York-based SpiralFrog Inc. “With SpiralFrog you know what you’re getting … there’s no threat of viruses, adware or spyware.”
The site lets you download tracks with Windows Media DRM. They can be used on some Windows computers and with compatible media players. Users need to register and visit the site every month or the tracks become unplayable.
The tracks cannot be burned to a CD and are incompatible with Macs and Apple’s iPods and iPhone.
While SpiralFrog was hyped when the company was announced last year, the limitations of Windows DRM have proven to be deadly to a score of iTunes-killer wannabees and are likely to limit interest in the new site.
What is the catch? I do not understand. Why would you use that?
I heard about 9thX, it is said to be much better and you can resell the content: http://www.9thX.com
I would use it because I don’t want indie music. I wan’t artists I have already heard of and also can find guitar tabs for. I have seen your spam link on other posts and wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.
[…] Here’s our summary of Spiralfrog from when the service went live: The site lets you download tracks with Windows Media DRM. They can be used on some Windows computers and with compatible media players. Users need to register and visit the site every month or the tracks become unplayable. […]
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