SpiralFrog
SpiralFrog.. Now that’s a strange brand name. Not that I haven’t come up with my fair share of weird names for my clients ;) . And how’s “A Digital Entertainment Destination” for a tagline? But that’s not the point.

SpiralFrog, it was announced Tuesday, is where Universal Music is releasing its entire catalog for free download. The idea is already being compared to iTunes and it definitely shows that the music business is really feeling the heat of the new digital reality.

Before you go rushing to the site you should know that the service is supposed to launch this fall. And you should also know that these people will not be giving the music as MP3’s to do with it whatever you like. According to TechCrunch, the music will be protected by a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme and it will come in the Windos Media Format. iPod users will be not be able to put these files on their players.

TechCrunch is not too impressed:

It will be an exciting day if the major labels come up with something truly more compelling than piracy on one hand or coercion on the other – but I don’t think this is it.

Read more here: Techcrunch: Universal to try ad driven music downloads through SpiralFrog – still with DRM.

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5 responses to “Will a Spiral Frog be the iTunes killer?”

  1. Mariam Ayyash Avatar
    Mariam Ayyash

    You had your share in naming products? Can you give examples? I am very interested in this art of “naming”, those people who work in the naming and branding business are really lucky (to me at least)
    see Igor International: http://www.igorinternational.com

  2. Mariam Ayyash Avatar
    Mariam Ayyash

    oh, as for Spiral Frog, i believe the Frog names are over consumed, just like the Fish names.

  3. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    “music will be protected by a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme and it will come in the Windos Media Format. iPod users will be not be able to put these files on their players.”

    Once this application is up and running it will only be a matter of weeks before a mainstreen app is released that will allow for simple conversion to mp3 for your ipod.

  4. david Avatar
    david

    if i can at least listen to some music free without having to buy or steal it that i won’t complain. if spiral frog is not for you than buy borrow or steal your music but why complain about something you don’t even want to use?

  5. Morgan Avatar
    Morgan

    I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.