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Freedb.org Returns to Life
Trogre writes "The recently troubled free CD database freedb has been picked up by a group called Magix. From Kaiser's blog: 'Following my announcement that I would like to let freedb go, I was approached by many interested parties ... Even if I shall no longer be actively associated with freedb, I shall continue casting a critical glance on freedb's future. The decision in favour of MAGIX has given us a new prospect of further development, offered a congenial and comfortable atmosphere during difficult negotiations, and provided the newly implemented hardware with generous capacities.' This might be good news since Grip still doesn't support MusicBrainz."
I doubt that they got it for free. I would be pleased to be corrected on this, however it seems that although freedb.org reaped a considerable amount of money from the advertising on the old site, the funds were all used by Michael Kaiser for his own purposes, even though he never did any of the substantial amount of work that was involved. That was all done by Joerg Hevers and Ari Sundholm. I was involved in the project for 12 months before Michael ever put in an appearance and even then it was only when he smelled money.
... says the person who (with the single exception of the parent post) directs people to freedb2. Not getting anything from those Google Ads then?