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mp3.com Acquired by CNet
bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in its current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired assets of mp3.com. The statement is very vague, but it says that following the redirection of the mp3.com domain on December 2nd, "all content will be deleted from [mp3.com's] servers." However they do plan to eventually introduce "new and enhanced artist services"."
In a related story, CNet.com is to offer an online music store by 2nd quarter of 2004.
don't you mean mp3.com.com?
Act now, before it's too late: wget -m -A=mp3 -D=mp3.com -L now. Independent music shall live on, free from its corporate shackles!
---------- Jaani.net -- internet law and technology
"Sorry, your search under the categories 'independant artists' and 'mp3s' yielded no results... Did you mean you want to purchase Britney Spears WMAs?"
What the fuck you mean, "write songs and let people hear"? This is business, man, you gotta make a buck! Ever heard a banker say "I just like to give money away and let people spend"? Or a farmer who "likes to make food so people will eat"?
People like you are ruinning this industry. You so-called artists, making songs just for the fun of it and getting in the way of honest hard workers like Britney who are on it for the right reasons, to make a couple of millions dollars a month.
Thank God for RIAA and the corporations. In some years all this "share" and "independent" crap will be over, everybody in jail, broken or bought out, and we can go back the business of selling crap music to the sheep, I say, the people.
One thing mp3.com has proven is that nobody buys such alternatives consistently.
Dude,
I buy alternative music all the time. It is also known as "Top 40".
Love,
America's Public
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Speaking of cathedrals, too bad about that whole "reformation" thing, wasn't it?
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