2006 Vaporware Award: SpiralFrog

SpiralFrog has won our famed Vaporware Award For 2006. The company was supposed to debut a free music downloading service in 2006, but nothing has materialized. Even after the New York City-based company made a series of splashy announcements in the summer of 2006, when it boasted of big plans to distribute free music downloads via an ad-supported Website from Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, there hasn’t been anything...

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Major Labels Sue AllofMP3.com In The States

Not satisfied with the lack of action from the Russian Government, several music labels have sued MediaServices, the U.S. agency that owns Russia’s controversial AllofMP3.com web site. Arista Records LLC, Warner Bros. Records Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and UMG Recordings Inc., among others, have sued, charging that the site provides songs to consumers without the labels permission. While Mediaservices has claimed that paying...

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