Myspace to Sell MP3s From Unsigned Bands

soldrinero writes "Yahoo! news is hosting a story about a new competitor to Apple's iTunes Music Store. Nearly all the other iTunes competitors have been strongly controlled by the music industry, shackled in DRM, and giving little back to artists. The new MySpace music store will feature vanilla MP3 downloads at prices set by the individual bands (3 million of them!), all or nearly all of whom are unsigned musicians with no industry affiliation. Is this the example we have all been waiting for of how the Internet will obviate the business model of the recording industry?"

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Great word!

[Anonymous Coward]

Brit. /{sm}{rfa}bv{shti}e{shti}t/, U.S. /{sm}{fata}bvi{smm}e{shti}t/ Forms: 15-16 obuiate, 16 obviat, 16- obviate; Sc. pre-17 17 obviat, pre-17 17- obviate. [ classical Latin obvi{amac}t-, past participial stem (cf. -ATE3) of obvi{amac}re to act contrary to, to go against (late 2nd cent. A.D.), in post-classical Latin also to meet (Vulgate), to withstand, oppose, prevent (5th cent.) ob- OB- + via (see VIA n.). Cf. Anglo-Norman obvier to avoid, Old French, Middle French, French obvier to resist (c1180), to answer an objection (1370), to prevent (1370), to meet (16th cent.).]

        1. trans. a. To meet and dispose of; to circumvent, do away with, remove (a difficulty, need, etc.); to prevent or avoid by anticipatory measures.
1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 521 To bring thame to underly the lawis of this realme..and to obviat and resist to this maist wickit interpryise. 1598 B. YOUNG tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 338 So did she obuiate this doubt with a sudden remedie. 1656 O. CROMWELL Speech 17 Sept. in W. C. Abbott Writings & Speeches O. Cromwell (1947) IV. 261 That I might..advise with you about the remedies and means to obviate these dangers. 1671 R. MACWARD True Non-conformist 12 This is already obviat by the Lord's own determination. 1693 R. BENTLEY Boyle Lect. VIII. 8 [This] will obviate and preclude the most considerable objections of our Adversaries. 1751 JOHNSON Rambler No. 148 {page}11 But how has he obviated the inconveniences of old age? 1790 A. HAMILTON in Papers 14 Dec. (1963) VII. 310 Whence the transportation and retransportation of the metals are obviated. 1804 LD. ELLENBOROUGH in East's Rep. V. 254 The defect..cannot..be obviated in the manner suggested. 1868 J. E. T. ROGERS Man. Polit. Econ. iv. 38 The risk of transporting money from one country to another has been obviated by the use of..Bills of Exchange. 1918 R. B. ARMITAGE Private Sex Advice to Women xii. 159 Should not contraception be employed to obviate the crime of abortion? 1960 A. S. NEILL Summerhill i. 19 The wear and tear of materials in Summerhill is a natural process. It could be obviated only by the introduction of fear. 1989 B. H. KERBLAY Gorbachev's Russia ii. 31 This internal funding will obviate the need for subsidies.

        {dag}b. To anticipate, forestall. Obs. rare.
1712 J. ADDISON Spectator No. 367 4 If I do not take care to obviate some of my witty Readers, they will be apt to tell me, that my Paper..is still beneficial [etc.].

        {dag}2. trans. To meet, encounter; to withstand, oppose. Obs.
1609 S. ROWLANDS Knaue of Clubbes 37 As on the way I Itinerated, A Rurall person I Obuiated, Interogating times Transitation. 1654 EARL OF MONMOUTH tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 326 [He] advanced suddenly with..300 Foot to obviat him. 1695 J. EDWARDS Disc. conc. Old & New Test. III. Ded. sig. Aiv, You obviated their Folly..with a profound Wisdom. 1702 J. LOGAN in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania 9 84 To obviate those three unworthy charges..I have taken all proper courses. a1709 J. FRASER Chron. Frasers (1905) 134 Marching another way to obviat Lovatt.

        {dag}3. trans. To lie in the way between. Obs. rare.
1705 E. SCARBURGH tr. Proclus in Eng. Euclide 8 A Strait line is That, All whose intermedial Parts do obviate the Extreams [Gk. {elenis}{pi}{iota}{pi}{rho}{omicron}{sigma}{theta} {epsilon}{gifrown}].

        {sm}obviating n. rare, avoidance, disposal of, prevention.
1605 H. WOTTON Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 329 Whether I shall..do anything for the *obviating of these reports, or let them vanish like other imaginary bodies of the Devil. 1934 F. M. FORD It was Nightingale II. ii, I sinned against my gods to the extent of saying that I was going..to write a work that should have for its purpose the obviating of all future wars.

Stick to english, forget the latin

[dsanfte]

I think everyone knows what you're trying to say in your sig, but you butchered it pretty badly. In fact, that's some of the worst written Latin I've seen on slashdot so far.