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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."
I was with you until you said Soundgarden is crap. What's with you man? Putting Soundgarden and Britney Spears in the same category?!?!?
I am an artist that has used MP3.com for 4 years to distribute the music that my band records. Back in the heyday, we even made several hundred dollars from people downloading our stuff as several of our songs were in the top 40 grunge chart.
MP3.com was a really cool service.
Still - why the hell would we want the content to be preserved? I don't want copies of my music floating around in some other record company's vault. They're doing the smart thing by destroying the music, otherwise, they could be accused for ripping off the most popular bands on MP3.com.
With today's web hosting market, bandwidth is cheap enough for bands to afford to distribute their music themselves, and if anybody is reading this and needs space for their band, my company (Cerebral Tech, Inc) will host you with no strings for ten bucks a month, just send me an email.
Just because a big record company is behind this doesn't mean its wrong - they're actually doing something that benefits us artists in the long run.
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