Really, everyone getting excited about SpiralFrog’s announcement should just stop reading fevered pronouncements like “a huge blow to established music stores such as iTunes, eMusic, and Urge” and see what Bob Lefsetz has to say:
Rental, and make no mistake, SpiralFrog is rental, it’s just that you pay for it with your eyeballs/time as opposed to cash, has been proven to be a failure. . . .
Ignore ridiculous pronouncements of well-endowed vaporware and get down in the pit with the proletariat. . . .
A lot of unprotected music for a low price that you own permanently. This is the only solution. To think otherwise is to be ignorant.
And who offers “unprotected music for a low price that you own permanently”? Hint: it’s a swindleeeee!!!!!
Chad - 2006-09-01 03:20
In the scheme SpiralFrog is planning, the music is just a host to spread the advertising virus. Instead of offering a good product at a fair price, they are creating a fake “attention” economy. I don’t see how anyone at Apple, eMusic, or anywhere else, could see this service as a threat.