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  "path": "/2006/08/30/to-think-otherwise-is-to-be-ignorant/",
  "publishedAt": "2006-08-30T11:49:20.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "emusic",
    "music"
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  "textContent": "Really, everyone getting excited about [SpiralFrog’s announcement][SpiralF] should just stop reading fevered pronouncements like “[a huge blow to established music stores such as iTunes, eMusic, and Urge][a huge]” and see [what Bob Lefsetz has to say][what Bo]:\n\n> Rental, and make no mistake, SpiralFrog is rental, it’s just that you pay for it with your eyeballs/time as opposed to cash, has been proven to be a failure.  . . .\n>\n> Ignore ridiculous pronouncements of well-endowed vaporware and get down in the pit with the proletariat.  . . .\n>\n> A lot of unprotected music for a low price that you own permanently.  This is the only solution.  To think otherwise is to be ignorant.\n\nAnd who offers “unprotected music for a low price that you own permanently”?  Hint: [it’s a swindleeeee!!!!!][its a]\n\n[SpiralF]: http://www.spiralfrog.com/press_release.aspx \"SpiralFrog and Universal Music Group Partner in Advertising-Supported Legal Music Download Service\"\n[a huge]: http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/08/29/universal_gives.html \"Universal gives in, offers free music downloads\"\n[what Bo]: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/08/29/spiralfrog/ \"SpiralFrog\"\n[its a]: http://www.emusic.com/\n\n  *\n\nChad - 2006-09-01 03:20{#f1c1c899-001}\n\nIn the scheme SpiralFrog is planning, the music is just a host to spread the advertising virus. Instead of offering a good product at a fair price, they are creating a fake \"attention\" economy. I don't see how anyone at Apple, eMusic, or anywhere else, could see this service as a threat.",
  "title": "SpiralFrog: “To think otherwise is to be ignorant”"
}