How "FREE & AVAILABLE" are Free Music and Video Downloads?

May I just say that I stumbled upon this article as I was combing thru Google's news postings. Spiral Frog launches today. It's supposedly an ad-based site where anyone can just download music and videos for FREE. Hmmm.... this idea wreaks of fish - or, more like frogs, whatev. Chevy is the only advertiser that I've noticed on the site.

Shit smell #1:
"..offering more than 800,000 tracks and 3,500 music videos for download... that content comes by way of Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company and the only major label that has licensed its music and videos to SpiralFrog."

Is that it? One label? I think my iPod holds more than what they have to offer..... Wait, what's this? If I have an iPod or a Mac, I can't use this "Free" service?

Shit smell #2:
"Downloads cannot be burned to a CD, but they can be transferred to dozens of digital music players." The content, however, is not compatible with Apple's Macintosh computers or its market-leading iPod."

And there you have it... A big Shitball rockets onto iPod and Mac users - which is a helluva gigantic slice of the pie. Oh! And in case these people don't know iPod Touch just hit the market this past Friday.... Story here.