It looks like the old bastion of DIY music web distribution, MP3.com, has had a fire sale and CNET is picking up "some" of the assets (whatever the hell that means). The upshot is that the millions of artist-published works (good, bad, and ugly) are going to get deleted from mp3.com's servers. MP3.com story here.
Another take on the bizarre pairing from theregister.
CNET will follow Wal-Mart, Real Inc. and Apple Computer into the DRM business, infecting as many computers as they can with restrictive software controls that close what for a brief period has been an open computer platform. They all hope that this tentative business model, the terms of which are set by the entertainment "industry", will somehow turn them a profit. Or at least give the illusion of doing so, until a better idea comes along.
Another take on the bizarre pairing from theregister.
CNET will follow Wal-Mart, Real Inc. and Apple Computer into the DRM business, infecting as many computers as they can with restrictive software controls that close what for a brief period has been an open computer platform. They all hope that this tentative business model, the terms of which are set by the entertainment "industry", will somehow turn them a profit. Or at least give the illusion of doing so, until a better idea comes along.
