SpiralFrog, a website which for months has been shrouded behind a beta tag, has now officially emerged as a venue on the Web for free music (audio and video) downloads, supported by advertising. The company has struck revenue-sharing deals with various members of the music industry, the largest partnership being one made with Universal Music Group, “the world’s largest record company” and the only major label in SpiralFrog’s list of clients to date. Thus far, the website has secured roughly 800,000 tracks and 3,500 music videos for distribution to users, and “expects to have more than 2 million tracks over the next several months,” said the chairman and founder of SpiralFrog, Joe Mohen, according to an Associated Press report.......

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