More than 1 million songs - not all of them good, mind you - uploaded to the Web site MP3.com over the years by various musicians went away Tuesday as the new owners of the Web site took it offline, with a promise to launch a similar service next year. Garage bands and solo musicians from dozens of musical genres were notified last week to make back-up copies of their song files or risk losing them to the fleeting business world of the Internet.Source: The Mercury News Six years of music to be exact, gone. Here we have another Napster. What? You don't follow? Roxio bought the Napster brand, and relaunched it as a for pay service, something very different from the original. C|NET is doing the same darn thing! They will relaunch MP3.COM next year, but as something completely different.
MP3 Dot Gone
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