For the reader on the go, an easily digestible list of cool things about Spiralfrog:
- It permits you to download useful 128 kbps MP3s by artists such as Eminem and Elton John.
- Thanks to our trusty friend DRM, the files expire in 30 days.
- It is named Spiralfrog.
- It is supported entirely by forcing you to watch ads from a “who’s who” of advertisers.
- Chairman and founder Joe Mohen was considerate enough to have his five-year-old daughter name his company.
- It is debuting in America by the end of the summer.
- The beta only works in Internet Explorer, and IE7’s default security settings prevent users from logging in.
- If Mohen earnestly believes that people who subscribe to his service (which is named Spiralfrog) will watch 90 seconds of ads to download one song that will expire in one month, his optimism is endearing and beautiful.
- It operates in a legal grey area where the MP3s are considered promotional copies, which may be a ploy to skirt royalty payments.
- Upon learning of Spiralfrog’s impending existence, Steve Jobs started to laugh for a moment, but the noise was muffled when he began to smoke two cigars at once, both lit with separate hundred-dollar bills. He then put his feet up on his desk and took the rest of the day off.
