Re: RIP MP3.com

"dt king" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Mike Rivers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > > Got an email from mp3.com a moment ago. Looks like CNET takes over
> December 2,
> > > 2003 and mp3.com will delete all content at the switchover. Wow.
> >
> > Isn't that one of those places where you uploaded your music and they
> > sent you money when people downloaded it?
> >
> > So much for the truly independent music delivery/sales model. I wonder
> > what CNET has in mind.
>

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> I moved all my personal files over to SoundClick.com.  They're more like
> the original mp3.com model.

It will only be a matter of time before SoundClick will be unable to support
their business model without asking you for money or asking you to look at
someone else's paid advertisements. This is not meant as a derogatory
remark.

Sorry, I was out of town when this thread began life and I just received my
MP3.com notice last night so it is the first I have heard about it.

Hopefully, serious musicians (or rather, musicians serious about a career),
and especially the good ones we hope to hear some day, will survey the
events of the last 5 years and drop the silly pipedream that the Internet is
the Freebie Marketing Nirvana and/or Distribution Tool of  The Future that
will free them from "Major Record Company Bondage".

Hopefully, these good musicians will return to seeking decent record
contracts and looking at the process on the basis of a long term career, and
not the quick buck (so, I repeat, as an audience, we'll get to hear them
eventually). The bad ones are welcome to  stay on the freebie services (when
they pop up) out of everybody's way  where nobody goes to listen (this last
comment is not pointed at any particular person, really).

In the meantime, the vestiges of the Digital/Internet music experience
leaves us with these ill-legacies:

1.) illegal downloading that still threatens the only "meaningful" mass
distribution channel a career-minded musician has.
2.) the ability to character-assassinate anyone on a global basis.

<g>

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