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MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed
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."
Canadian Cynic, canadian politics is less boring than you
"Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3."
rm -rf
*chug*
That's the stupidest hypothetical set of low-probability occurences strung together that I've seen in my life. Why don't you throw in a few more random coincidences and have her sold into white slavery at the end as a result of this happening? That'd make these guys *super* eeeevil.
JFC, you blithering assmaster.
How about we download the content and upload it to freenet?
We heard this kind of story before, and it wasn't fun the first time.
Encourages violence? Encourages violence? That's a bunch of pinko-liberal hippie bullshit.
Man, IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!!1!!!
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
She does, but her lousy ex-boyfriend Kurt - the one with the neck tattoo - took all the CDs and CD-ROMs when he moved out to shack up with Cindy Metalhead. The hard drive on her G4 is on the fritz too, because Kurt's kid Darien spilled Vanilla Pepsi into it when he was on one of his access visits.
Could she have a little son called Timmy who needs very expensive medical treatment, and her only hope to be able to afford it is to succeed as a rock star? Tell me she could. I always fall for those things.
-- Repeat with me: "There is no right to profits".
Hypothetical: John Talentless McBad has a plan to destroy civilization.
He discovers how to make music that causes people to become absolute evil. The problem is, the music sounds awful. There's no way he can get signed to a major label.
So what does he do? Put his music on mp3.com and wait as people randomly download his music. By his estimates, in 10 years enough people will have downloaded "Gotta Make U Sweat (in an evil way baby)" to destroy society.
He hides out in a bunker until 2013.
But, unbeknowst to him (no internet in deep underground bunkers), mp3.com is wiped out and all files destroyed!! The world is saved!! In 10 years he'll come out to find a planet filled with happy people skipping, giving eachother flowers, and smiling at strangers.
John will just be another great villain you never heard of. Guess he'll go back to waiting tables.
Or, uh, you know, we could just stop giving dirt-stupid hypothetical examples.
it's entirely Free as in an STD
Wrong place for that joke, mister. Here on Slashdot most people have to pay to catch STDs.
I just purchased 20 of my own CDs
Wow! Congratulations on the sale of your first 20 CDs!