MP3.com to cease operations (cd, album, 50 cent, member)

Rockafella Skank · 12-18-2003, 10:15 PM

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Please be advised that on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be accessible in its current form. Please remember to update or remove all links and references to the URL www.mp3.com. Additionally if you would like a historical record of your page, we recommend that you capture screen shots of the page as well as your artist statistics pages since they will no longer be available once the site goes offline.

This news is a little old, but CNET is buying MP3.com and basically taking it down. I wonder what they're going to do with the domain name.

Edgil · 12-18-2003, 11:47 PM

well being in a band myself I think its sheisty that people get free MP3s.. I mean I know how much freakin work goes into making a CD and It's definately a lot more than you pay but we do it because we love it. See the thing is though bands that put out a CD with one well recorded song a then 10 or 12 filler songs trying to sell it for 15+ bucks.. thats a different story but I mean paying 10 bucks or so for a good CD that has a lot of time and effort put into it and they pour their soul into this music they perform and write.. isn't that enough to pay their living, because that is their life and job yeah... thats all I have to say for now lol

Rockafella Skank · 12-18-2003, 11:53 PM

Yeah, but MP3.com was a place where aspiring artists could post their album for download, but get money back in return. MP3.com did not promote piracy at all. If they had they would have been gone a long time ago.

MobilizeTerror · 12-21-2003, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Edgil

well being in a band myself I think its sheisty that people get free MP3s.. I mean I know how much freakin work goes into making a CD and It's definately a lot more than you pay but we do it because we love it. See the thing is though bands that put out a CD with one well recorded song a then 10 or 12 filler songs trying to sell it for 15+ bucks.. thats a different story but I mean paying 10 bucks or so for a good CD that has a lot of time and effort put into it and they pour their soul into this music they perform and write.. isn't that enough to pay their living, because that is their life and job yeah... thats all I have to say for now lol

You are saying 10 bucks is not good for a cd, because of all the hard work, but just think if only a 100 people buy it you already have 1000 dollars.

Rockafella Skank · 12-27-2003, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MobilizeTerror

You are saying 10 bucks is not good for a cd, because of all the hard work, but just think if only a 100 people buy it you already have 1000 dollars.

Artists only get between 50 cents and a dollar per CD sold. But if you go to their concert that costs 15 dollars they make about 90% of it.

morganb3 · 07-20-2007, 01:26 AM

hi all
this is my first post at musicbanter...gosh......mp3.com is a good source of entertainment at least 4 me if not for you guys...i would always like if these kinds of sites stay back...not too sure if these support piracy or not....and i am least interested in that....coz. i love music and thats it

Sparky · 07-20-2007, 02:05 AM

o.0

welcome?

07-20-2007, 01:26 AM	#6 (permalink)
morganb3 Groupie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7	would like to vote 4 mp3.com hi all this is my first post at musicbanter...gosh......mp3.com is a good source of entertainment at least 4 me if not for you guys...i would always like if these kinds of sites stay back...not too sure if these support piracy or not....and i am least interested in that....coz. i love music and thats it

12-18-2003, 11:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
Edgil Musical Dictator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: SoCal Posts: 222	well being in a band myself I think its sheisty that people get free MP3s.. I mean I know how much freakin work goes into making a CD and It's definately a lot more than you pay but we do it because we love it. See the thing is though bands that put out a CD with one well recorded song a then 10 or 12 filler songs trying to sell it for 15+ bucks.. thats a different story but I mean paying 10 bucks or so for a good CD that has a lot of time and effort put into it and they pour their soul into this music they perform and write.. isn't that enough to pay their living, because that is their life and job yeah... thats all I have to say for now lol

12-18-2003, 11:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
Rockafella Skank Management Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 609	Yeah, but MP3.com was a place where aspiring artists could post their album for download, but get money back in return. MP3.com did not promote piracy at all. If they had they would have been gone a long time ago.

07-20-2007, 02:05 AM	#7 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	o.0 welcome?