HotRodFoto
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Denver, CO | reply to joebear29
Re: Damn shame
ya this is. It's really sad. Once again i's big business screwin the indy musician..... |
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pianotech
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| said by HotRodFoto  :
ya this is. It's really sad. Once again i's big business screwin the indy musician.....
How can you say that? Cnet is starting their own indie musician place which launches in January '04. Have you ever stopped to think that legally, Cnet could not buy the library? The mp3.com artist agreement I signed gave mp3.com rights to the music in exchange for hosting web pages. No hosting web pages = no more rights. I'm guessing that getting permission to archive mp3.com's 5 terabytes worth of files would have been a logistic nightmare, since they would have had to get permission from each and every artist, so they decided to start from scratch.
Any artist wishing to re-upload their music to the new site (or any of the other dozens of online indie sites) is free to do so, so what's the big deal?
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pianotech
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1 edit | Plus, remember that MR SOLD mp3.com to VU, a member of the RIAA, yet now when it's good pr, he takes a stand for the indie musician.
At least Cnet is not a member of the RIAA and not part of the big 5 record cartel; so why not wait and see if it ends up being BETTER for the indie musician than VU was??
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Synon29
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Cabot, AR | I would have to agree with you here pianotech. I think we can at least give cnet a chance and see what they end up doing. |
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I think the main problem here is that it's just such a shame so much music will be destroyed.. There's a very good chance some percentage of it will never be heard again.
Sure, same thing happens on daily basis with music that is never recorded or written down.. but if in this case it's highly preventable.
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HotRodFoto
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| That is what I am saying. All those artists from every corner of the world. Literally. It took years to build mp3.com and is all honesty, it was the best. IUMA is ok, but it's like being on dialup when you download. Their servers are way to slow. I imagine that many of the musicians will never be heard from again that were on mp3.com Just sad to really see it go......
How can I say it's another case of big business screwin the indy musician? Who owned mp3.com? VU before they sold it. It's the musicians on their that are the most hurt. |
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mcrandy
join:2004-02-05
Grass Valley, CA
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Hi, Yes big business again screws the indie artists thats what he said and you will find the new sites will probably have a fee attached. I had over 200 songs on mp3.com and it took months to put everything there and send artwork ect. So if you think its so easy to re-do everything then by all means please duplicate my original site. I also ran a very large e-zine "Battle of the Babes" and several radio station's on there and all this and ALL THE DIRECTIVES FROM OTHER LINK SITES is now invalid.
Several artists stuff I promoted and put on that site are now gone forever cause my own computer crashed and my harddrive of storage was reformatted so now that they are deepsixing the archive thats that. They are destroying the archive because people's stuff their would not be forced onto their new "moneymaking" adventure and if you dig far enough you will probably find Dick Cheney is in control of all of it. 
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pianotech
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| The simple fact is that the music was not for sale. VU sold Cnet the mp3.com url and the hardware, not the content. The content ended up being sold to Trusonic, which was mp3.com's muzak division. Artists on mp3.com who had music in the Trusonic program can go to Trusonic, login with their mp3.com name/pw, and access or remove their tunes.
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