Downward Spiral in the Music Biz?
News has emerged about a new music download service, SpiralFrog, due to launch in December. This story has been extensively covered on boingboing and Techcrunch. However, if you’ve missed it, the gist is that the service will offer the Vivendi Universal Music Group catalogue for free download. Talks are underway with EMI and other labels. Cool.
But obviously, there’s a catch. Actually, there are several catches that have already disenchanted commentators: