Comments on: Yahoo May Offer DRM Free Music For Free

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Yahoo May Offer DRM Free Music For Free-Download Music Free — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:11:41 +0000

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By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:16:03 +0000

I wouldn’t mind advertising in the song, like if it was just a simple text ad that scrolled in the song title in player like WMP or Winamp. But a 30 sec audio ad in the song would never work. Who would tolerate that?

By: grammarnazi

grammarnazi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:32:48 +0000

um, author? can you please work harder on your grammar? very tough to read / trust content from someone who doesnt know their to/too’s

By: William Fleming

William Fleming — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:14:01 +0000

Hello Everyone! My name is William Fleming and I am the President and Founder of TurnItUp Media.

While many companies have tapped the ad-supported music model, we at TurnItUp Media have a different philosophy. How about a Patent-Pending 100% Ad-based Music Service? The music you download is paid for by the advertisers, so after you watch the ad your part is finished. Okay, so if you “want”, you can click on the advertiser’s link to get discounts and coupons for their products, but that is up to you!

With the music download phase of its Beta Test expected to launch before the end of the 1st quarter (2008), the ad-based music distributor, TurnItUp Media, is coming to the market with a respectable portfolio of over 2.4 million songs-and counting, all of which are 100% DRM-FREE.

If you don’t want to wait until the end of the year and would like to be part of a truly unique and industry changing model, then join the TurnItUp Media Revolution! We are currently running our first phase of the beta test which enables users to test the profile system.

Come check us out at http://www.TurnItUpMedia.com.

By: gyula csocsan

gyula csocsan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:23:55 +0000

many companies promised already, that they will offer music for free

then this comes regularly with a small trick (half the song, with ads, …)

there is no free lunch

By: ZOMGPWN!

ZOMGPWN! — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:10:18 +0000

“I take CARE of MY KIDS!”

- Chris Rock

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:32:50 +0000

The best way to do it is short (5-10 secs), targeted (location, timezone, sex, music preferences, age), and not for every song.

Then advertisers get the bang for their buck and users don’t even think about skipping the ad cause its so short.

This is the way to go for music, podcasts, and everything audio, an untapped market which begs to be ad sponsored, people are not gonna pay for music anymore as the time passes.

By: NotABug

NotABug — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:58:16 +0000

http://www.mybloop.com is already doing short targeted audio ads every few songs.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:20:10 +0000

Gareth- I honestly think that it is a horrible idea offering a “short, targeted audio advert” within a song itself. I would tolerate advertising in the searching and discovery process, but not within the music itself.

By: Gareth Reakes

Gareth Reakes — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:45:38 +0000

Hi, my name is Gareth Reakes and I am the CTO at We7. DRM free downloads is exactly what we do. We don’t have front line catalogue just yet but what we do have is expanding on a weekly basis. We fund the purchase of the track with a combination of standard banner advertising and a short, targeted audio advert attached to the beginning of the track. You can get an ad free version after a month of listening to it with an ad. As we get more and more proof of the business model we believe we will be able to get front line content. Any feedback on the site is appreciated.

By: entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:51:18 +0000

great news. In a year or two music industry will be very different.
DRM had to die, and it does.

By: kuldeep

kuldeep — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:43:52 +0000

If its true then i will be awesome, but i still dont see, how it can beat Torrents.

By: myplaylist.biz

myplaylist.biz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:32:24 +0000

If they had effective advertising, to couple free downloads then the model would work. However current Internet advertising is total cack.

http://thenextw...from-magazines/

By: MP3Nation

MP3Nation — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:14:48 +0000

Yup,look cool

http://mp3nation.blogspot.com

By: TechnoQ

TechnoQ — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:12:11 +0000

I agree with Matt

http://technoq.blogspot.com

By: TechnoQ

TechnoQ — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:11:53 +0000

I agree with Matt

By: gamermasterman

gamermasterman — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:19:19 +0000

@Matt
yeah that would be so awesome, half way through a Eddie Van Halen guitar
solo you hear “This song is brought to you buy…”

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:13:44 +0000

Maybe they will insert a 30 second advertisement 1/2 way through the song

By: Your Daddy

Your Daddy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:45:00 +0000

I heard they’re paying the 1000 ppl they layoff with a 500Gb SATA Drive full of music.