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The New MP3.com: 3rd Time a Charm?
macdaddypunk writes "Two weeks ago, CNET unveiled Download.com Music (mistaken by some for the new MP3.com). A week ago, they told the press that the real MP3.com was open for business, yet the site itself still said "coming soon." Today, MP3.com is finally live, and off to a sputtering start. It's a combination of tech articles and a meta-search for major-label downloads. For example, with a single search you can find that 'Abbey Road' by the Beatles is not available for legal download at iTunes, Napster, or anywhere else. The tech content includes such gems as 'how to copy your old vinyl records onto CDs.' The real news is what it does NOT include: no free downloads, and no indie artist community. (As reported earlier, the former MP3.com archive of 1.7 million songs was instead resurrected by another independent music community). The new MP3.com's search results don't even include the 3,500 indie artists from Download.com Music."
Sorry, but most of what appeared on the old mp3.com appeared there because the artists were too lazy and too insecure (read, too immature as artists) to bother with releasing CDs or registering domains. Most of it never deserved to be world distributed in the first place, and I really won't miss it. Whenever someone sent me an mp3.com link, my first thought was always, "Oh, here comes some crap."
You mean "you're right", not "your right", retard.