MP3.COM Content to be Erased
November 21, 2003 in Articles
From this article: “Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to c|net, and instead of selling its archive, containing more than a million songs by 250,000 artists, the company will simply delete the content. Mike Robertson, founder and former CEO of MP3.com is currently pleading with Vivendi and CNET to allow archive.org to mirror the contents. Since many of these artists won’t be able to come up with alternate hosting in that timeframe, and many of them won’t even know it’s happening, what Robertson calls “the largest collection of digital works ever assembled” will cease to exist.”
Personally, CNet.com sucks. Their editors half the time don’t really know what the hell they are talking about. Their site is an Ad sponsered hype zone” where they talk about things people are “paying” them to talk about. I hope all these artists are able to get their stuff off MP3.com.
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kirk95 said on November 22, 2003
So sad that MP3.com is dead!! But the truth is it died a long time ago!
-88- said on November 22, 2003
Yeah, well, we have all have known consciously or not that what is needed are site(s) dedicated, that is to say DEDICATED, to artists.
The site would play no RIAA trash, no labels per se. Dedicated sites will play only music outside the commercial channels. “Oh, you are RIAA affiliated, sorry your noise cannot be heard on our station” which refuses to pay royalties to anyone who is not the artist. Turn RIAA methodology on its head and use it for higher ends. This could allow artists to experiment freely, and release self-copyrighted music under whatever trade they wished. 9 cents a song, 9 songs for 1 cent, $900/song, free, whatever. The price is too high when nobody wants it. Many artists could release work for exposure value at no charge, but the point is that artists themselves would be responsible to do it whatever way they wished. Some would find their manner, others not.
This RIAA hegemony must cease. For Vivendi to buy the right to assasinate the work of others is well, obscene. In pop culture, the dollar works for dumber deals.
-88-