It looks grip for mp3.com according to this from the Register:

http://212.100.234.54/content/7/34009.html

That really stinks for a lot of independent musicians. Hopefully many saw something like this coming however, and got a headstart on hosting their music elsewhere. MP3.com has been bobbing near the bottom of the outhouse for quite awhile now, so at least this news shouldn't give anyone a heart attack.

It does suck for independent artists. MP3.com has changed coarse again. It was really useful back in '99 when you could store CD's you owned for playback anywhere. That was before the labels wrath came down.

It looks like CNET will at least be making a token effort to support artists (or grab most of their money... whatever):

http://mp3.cnet.com/artist.html

Who knows what they have planned though... could be better than what Vivendi was offering, could be worse...

ROFL!
Isn't 'supporting artists' and 'grabbing most of their money' exactly the same thing?

Or have I been listening to the RIAA for too long?

SAVE MP3.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/savemp3/petition.html

No, just let it die.

I used to do some tech support on the MP3.com message boards. And then last summer they decided to make them available to premium subscribers only, thus locking me out.

I told their representative Sophie what was going on and how it was stupid, but at least if it sticks, could I possibly retain access to the message boards. I never got a response.

So, to heck with it. Let MP3.com roll over and die already.

haha. That's some good reasoning to let it die. Petty revenge

this is the perfect opportunity for someone else to do it right.

mp3.com is crap anyway. lots of good artists, but the site is crap, the mp3 files quality is crap, their 'sign in' is crap, and when you centralize things it turns into crap


CRAP!

Oooh I still remember the days when Mr Lindows still owned MP3.com. Had some fun on the forums there.

BTW: Why doesn't anyone buy AudioCoding.com for a few million?

Menno

I remenber mp3.com forums beeing a nice place. But one day, they decided to change to forum software, and all the fun was gone....

It's about time mp3.com dies, imo as well. My artist number is like 3000 something, so I too remember the "glory days"

http://www.iuma.com/
picks up where "the good ol days" of mp3.com left off imo.

There's a somewhat equivalent www.mp3.de which some artists have already gone to. I don't know who owns that operation, and the web site is all in German.

Ummm....anyone else notice they have a grouping called "Black Music". As if there aren't a million white kids listening to rap these days.