CNET Takes Over MP3.com
Published November 14, 2003
- San Francisco-based CNET Networks said it has signed a definitive agreement with Vivendi Universal Net USA to acquire the assets of MP3.com, with the deal scheduled to close in December. Terms of the transaction were not released. CNET Networks operates an array of technology-oriented Web sites including CNET.com, Builder.com, GameSpot, mySimon.com, News.com and ZDNet.
News of the deal first surfaced in an e-mail sent by MP3.com to its customers and posted to its site late Thursday.
- Nov 13, 2003 at 17:44:13 Important MP3.com Announcement
CNET Networks, Inc announced today that it has acquired certain assets of MP3.com, Inc.
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.
Following a transition period, CNET Networks, Inc. plans to introduce new and enhanced artist services. If you would like to receive email updates on these new services and notification when they are available, as well as an invitation to their special artists-only preview, please sign up here.
Your personal information, music, images, related content or other information will not be transferred to CNET Networks, Inc. or any other third party.
MP3.com's content administration tools will remain available until the site is redirected on December 2, 2003. Please note, however, that promptly following the removal of the MP3.com website, all content will be deleted from our servers and all previously submitted tapes, CD-ROMs and other media in our possession will be destroyed. We recommend that you make alternative content hosting arrangements as soon as practicable.
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....
- CNET Takes Over MP3.com
- Published: November 14, 2003
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- Filed Under: Sci/Tech: Software, Sci/Tech: Internet, Music: News
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We've had our Elliptical stuff up there for a few years now - not sure what we'll do with it next.
Glenn Reynolds mentioned Magnatune as an option. I'm looking into transferring over there myself. It's a different sort of deal than MP3.com in that the site administrators have to 'approve' you as an artist before they'll promote you, but I kinda like that.
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Bum deal :( I remember when our radio show first started we featured music from different mp3.com "unknown" artists (by permission, of course). I'm still in touch with a few of these artists several years later.