I’m not sure if you’ve heard about this or not yet, but SpiralFrog, the new music download destination, has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company, to make UMG’s extensive catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog’s advertising-supported service.

SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the ability to legally download music by many of the world’s most popular and award-winning artists.

CEO Robin Kent stated that the site “will offer consumers a better experience and environment than they can get from any pirate site”. Kent also stated that “Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling.”

Kent highlighted some key factors – legal digital files with no viruses or spyware in a controlled client-server architecture, quick downloading, and quality songs and music videos by great artists as among the primary benefits users will gain.

SpiralFrog will launch in beta later this year.