Vivendi sells MP3.com, will erase content

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.

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Totally Lame

11/22, 7:44am, EST

"Steel from the Poor - Feed the Rich"

"Screw the little guy!"

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wow...

11/22, 10:29am, EST

FSCK C|NET! This is horrible... what is their deal lately? Bunch of damned greedy low-lifes. Too bad Apple didn't buy MP3.com out and add all those indy bands to their store. I hate c|net....

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Sheesh

11/22, 8:56pm, EST

Everyone's acting like all those indy bands kept the only copy of their songs on mp3.com. Just upload it to iTunes thru cdbaby. This is a win for artists in reality since Vivendi is acknowledging that they don't own the songs and can't just sell it to someone else without the artist's permission.

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11/22, 9:38pm, EST

Good point. Apple and CDBaby really ought to recruit all of those musicians.

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humph