Yahoo May Offer DRM Free Music For Free

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1. Your Daddy
   

   January 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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

2. Matt
   

   January 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 pm

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

3. gamermasterman
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 12:19 am

   @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…”

4. TechnoQ
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 1:11 am

   I agree with Matt

5. TechnoQ
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 1:12 am

   I agree with Matt

   http://technoq.blogspot.com

6. MP3Nation
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 1:14 am

   Yup,look cool

   http://mp3nation.blogspot.com

7. myplaylist.biz
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 1:32 am

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

   http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/.....magazines/

8. kuldeep
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 2:43 am

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

9. entrepreneurship
   

   January 24th, 2008 at 4:51 am

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

10. Gareth Reakes
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 7:45 am

    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.

11. Matt
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    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.

12. NotABug
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 8:58 am

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

13. Clark
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    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.

14. ZOMGPWN!
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    “I take CARE of MY KIDS!”

    - Chris Rock

15. gyula csocsan
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    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

16. William Fleming
    

    January 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    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.

17. grammarnazi
    

    January 25th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    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

18. Charles
    

    January 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    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?