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Legal Music Downloads with SpiralFrog
SpiralFrog is coming out of the streets of New York City to prove that free legal music downloading is where its at. The service will stay in business by offering ad-supported downloads of audio and video. There are some major labels signed on to this startups project including recording giant Universal Music. The Universal music deal will allow SpiralFrog users in Canada and the US the ability to download the Universal Music Group's catalogue. There will be no cost to the end user. There will be DRM built into all of the audio and video content. There is no word on the effect that this might have on the content, but it could potentially block it from being burned properly, or transferred to MP3 devices. The SpiralFrog service is scheduled to launch in beta form at the end of 2006.
[Via GigaOM]
Filed under: Audio, Business, Fun, Internet, Video, Web services, Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Social Software
YouTube to host "every music video ever created"
YouTube is on a quest to add a massive music video library to its extremely popular online database of videos, and is asking major labels to work with them. YouTube has been in talks with major record labels about posting their archives of music videos in their service. This is a drastic, but reasonable move away from a site where people share their own videos, moving towards a more mainstream approach providing professional content.The co-founder of YouTube Steve Chen spoke about how in 12-18 months he would like to have every music video ever created accessible on YouTube. The big way that YouTube will differentiate themselves is to offer the service for free, and not charge like much of their competition (iTunes, AOL, Google and Yahoo) does.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
