- SpiralFrog, the ad-supported peer-to-peer service that trumpeted its deals with major labels before launching a product, has experienced a mass exodus of executives in the past week. Not to say
we told you so, but ... [
ZDNet]
- Billy Ray Cyrus is going to teach the cast of
Dancing With The Stars the achy breaky next season, but will he grow his mullet back? [
NY Post]
- Don't push him, 'cause he's close to the edge ...
of the ring: Legendary rapper Mele Mel is hoping to become the WWE's next superstar. [
AllHipHop]
- The Game, realizing that it's been almost a week since his name was in the news, cancels a tour of Africa at the last minute. [
Angry Ape, via
Paper Thin Walls]
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A note to whoever put together the "35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s" listicle I just found on DownloadSquad: I get it. Your readers are a bunch of mouth-breathing brats who want nothing more than to satiate their seemingly endless appetite for music without actually making an effort to obtain that music beyond right-clicking, and maybe having a wank over the greatness of Trent Reznor from time to time. And you need to cater to, and occasionally pander to, those tendencies. Fine. That's the world we live in now, for better or worse. But.
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Hey, remember the ad-supported download service SpiralFrog, which allowed users to download songs for 30 whole days as long as they sat through a few ads? Was going to change the industry and make music a viable source of income again? No? Well, you're not alone; the company lost $3.3 million in the last quarter, during which it generated a whopping $20,000 in revenue. And no, I'm not forgetting any zeroes or commas there. [
