Say Goodbye to BuyMusic.com

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Sunday March 28, 2004 @03:32AM from the can't-say-i-ever-said-hello dept.

dark_lotus writes "Spymac.com today is reporting that an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com, informing them that BuyMusic.com is being merged into the parent site, Buy.com. Spymac reports: BuyMusic.com initially expected to sell one million songs per day or 200 to 300 in the first year according to estimates by founder and CEO Scott Blum. When re-interviewed in December, Blum offered no statistics, but did say, 'We're nowhere near Apple's numbers.'"

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FP for GNAA! by James+A.+M.+Joyce · 2004-03-28 03:32 · Score: -1, Troll

On 56k by rolloffle, pwning bare? Could it be?! Taco sucks penis!
STOP MOLESTING BABY JESUS by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 03:45 · Score: -1, Troll
Re:Give me a break. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 03:47 · Score: -1, Troll

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HOT DAMN, THE FAGGOTRY IS THICK IN HERE. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 03:52 · Score: -1, Troll

Utterly fucking PENILE.
Re:Buy.com you fools by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 03:54 · Score: -1, Troll

So you're proud you ripped off a company that's failing? And this is +1 Interesting because?
no, congratulations to you... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 03:57 · Score: -1, Troll

you fucking illiterate cock.
Where is Orrin Hatch now? by teamhasnoi · 2004-03-28 04:07 · Score: -1, Troll

BuyMusic.com are dirty thieves! Frankly, I hope they disappear forever, and be on fire as they do it.
It's one thing to share music, it's a whole 'nother to SELL it when it's not yours. Dicks.
A perfect example of the double standards of the music industry that proclaims 'we're protecting the artists'. Notably, Congresswhores Hatch and Lehey aren't concerned with the appropriation of music from unsigned artists. Also notable is that I didn't give them hundreds of thousands for their campaigns.
What a joke. Please let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Debian has a solution for running this on Linux. by Slashdot+Admin · 2004-03-28 04:13 · Score: -1, Troll

While it doesn't matter much now that BuyMusic is going under, some guys at Debian actually wrote a Mozilla browser plugin that makes it possible to use BuyMusic under Linux. Here's a screenshot, or you can check out the sources from CVS and build it on systems other than Debian.

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A MILLION SONGS PER DAY? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 04:38 · Score: -1, Troll

Fuck you, CEOs with unrealistic expectations, you're the reason the company I worked for is bankrupt. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

But all that matters is that you got your CEO salary while the company still existed, right?
As opposed to a legal US site by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 05:27 · Score: 0, Troll

" Hmm... a shady Russian website that probably doesn't give shit to artists. How can I resist?"

The same way I resist iTunes... itunes sends 3% to the artist. The rest goes to the label.

If I download the album off the internet and send the artist a buck, everybody is better off, with the exception of the record companies.

I can live with myself.
Re:Bad math by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 08:20 · Score: -1, Troll

Are you an idiot, or just not very funny?

The BuyMusic business plan called for the sale of 750,000-1,000,000 songs per day, or 200-300 million songs per year.

You moron.
Re:Bad math by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-28 09:45 · Score: -1, Troll

Just read the original post to understand the grammatical ambiguity of the statement that I was making fun of.

1. It wasn't ambiguous. The meaning was clear.

2. It wasn't funny.

Then maybe you won't be so quick to insult people the next time you misunderstand something.

I think you're confused. I was the one who understood. You're the one who didn't get it.

I was two steps ahead of you

Obviously not.