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November 21, 2003
It's Hard to be Optimistic When a Friend Dies
According to a TechCentral column, MP3.com is soon to be dead. MP3, the premier site for discovering music from independent bands, created a marketplace where everyone could listen to and legally download music. It was sort of the Internet equivalent of the small college radio station that played anything and everything. It was a place to discover music that you would not otherwise have heard anywhere else, much less the homogenized mega-commercial mega-radio stations of today.
Perhaps it was ahead of it's time, with a business plan that rode the wave of the dot com debauchery, but it will be missed because what is replacing it will not have the same feeling.
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