Engadget points us to an interesting new site called SpiralFrog; an ad supported site that makes an attempt at free music, but it’s not really free. SpiralFrog makes a laughable attempt at offering free music, with catches. SpiralFrog music is all DRM’d. It requires you to log in at least once a month to maintain [...]
First, you have the catalyst; Steve Jobs creates an open letter advocating the removal of DRM requirement from the songs sold on iTunes. Then the RIAA responded with a complete misunderstanding of Jobs’s original proposal. Now the flaming as started.
All thanks to the RIAA, too. The judge as unfortunately ruled in favor of the RIAA. The full details of the article can be located on Yahoo Finance.
The general jist of it is the judge just ruled in favor of the RIAA to prevent XM + MP3 players from “recording” XM braodcasted songs. XM attempted [...]
