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Vivendi Offering MP3 Song for Sale

Posted by timothy on from the needs-to-actually-be-a-good-song-too dept.

pmorelli writes: "Maybe there's hope for the media dinosaurs yet: According to News.com, Vivendi is teaming up with Maverick Records, MP3.com, RollingStone.com, GetMusic.com and MP4.com to offer a remix of a Meshell Ndegeocello track, 'Earth,' for $0.99 online. No restrictions, just a plain old MP3. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of her stuff, I just may pony up a whole buck to economically encourage this sort of behavior."

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  1. This could be a good thing by dweezle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK the price is a little high and she's not a big, big name, but you get an unprotected download to do with as you please.
    So buy it and show support for the concept, check out the quality and if you're happy with that then send nice feedback
    as a customer(lower price, different artist, etc) and give them a chance.

    --
    In a time of universal lies, Telling the Truth is a revolutionary act - George Orwell
  2. set-up by asv108 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really have no clue who the artist is but I can already hear what the RIAA will say. "We tried to sell MP3's on the Internet but nobody bought them because there was no digital rights management." "This is why we need the Hollings bill!"