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MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bit-bucket-in-the-sky dept.

WCityMike writes "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. (recorded by over 250,000 artists) Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3. MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs."

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  1. That's ok by carcosa30 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, it's all pirate stuff anyway.

    It's not like any small, unrecognized bands use(d) Mp3.com for a distribution center.

    I could see why people would need something like it if the music industry were governed by greed and corporate interests, but the way it is, Sony et cetera are just a bunch of starving artists struggling to make an honest dollar and things like mp3.com just get in the way of that.

    Right?

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    1. Re:That's ok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      How in the hell is this Insightful? Is there some rule that say that at least 25% of the moderators must be nuts?

      The parent post is wrong. THE TRUTH IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE, YOU MORONS.

  2. Damn the French by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think the title says it all. Anything that Vivendi touches turns into shit.

  3. "Music" is on the radio by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The crap on MP3.com is hardly what I'd call "music," but I guess to be fair we should at least respect independent artists and their rights to create art.

    For example, BIG POO GENERATOR will soon be destroyed courtesy of this terrible and massive "rm -rf" campaign against freedom of music, art, and love.

    Please indicate, in a replied comment, your favorite MP3.com artists so as to show Vivendi and the Big Media companies that we love these people. It will take a grassroots effort, but by replying right now to this sllort, you can seriously help the Cause.

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  4. Re:This is bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    well I copied them both from k5 anyway. But thanks for noticing asshat!

  5. Re:This is bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Way to bite

    http://www.goatse.cx

    Assshoe.

  6. Re:Or are they in breach of contract? by fmaxwell · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think there's another part implied there. If we can't make enough money on ads to support this service, we'll have to shut it down.

    And if they were shutting it down, that would be a different matter. Instead, the domain and web site was sold to a wealthy corporation who are choosing to remove the content. It's not being shut down at all.

  7. Re:Library of Alexandria, meet mp3.com by cliffy2000 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cash was rockabilly, not country. Hence his awesomeness.