January 19th, 2010 
Kathy McGraw 
Ars Technica reports that FreeAllMusic.com, an ad supported music downloading service, signed an agreement with the music label EMI. Read the article here.
My first reaction to the idea of having to watch an ad to download a song was a rather harsh “no way, dude!” But then I thought about it and it didn’t sound that bad. I mean, for the mere inconvenience of watching a 30 second ad, you get a free song that is free of any sort of DRM, you know, that stuff that makes it hard to back up your music and to transfer your music to your mp3 player, etc.
The songs that FreeAllMusic will be offering won’t be from unheard of bands, or poor knock-offs, either. With signed contracts with EMI and Universal Music Group, it will have an assortment of songs by many of today’s popular artists.
We’ll have to see how this plays out, but it sounds pretty promising. The trade-off of a little bit of time to be able to download digital music with full ownership rights seems pretty small.
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