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==The end of the world's largest archive of free online music==

==The end of the world's largest archive of free online music==

Finally, Vivendi (the owner of UMG) had enough and sold the entire operation to CNET. <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/15/hungover_cnet_wakes_up_next/">As Andrew Orlowski put it in his Register article</a>, this was a bit like waking up in bed with someone that you don't remember going home with... and CNET decided to do the sensible thing and wipe the servers clean. Thus ended the largest collection of online music ever amassed in one place. While I find the comparison a bit exaggerated, I found the fact that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com">Wikipedia's article about MP3.com</a> links to the article about the ''Destruction of the Library of Alexandria'' to be a fitting tribute to the spirit in which the site was founded.

Finally, Vivendi (the owner of UMG) had enough and sold the entire operation to CNET. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/15/hungover_cnet_wakes_up_next As Andrew Orlowski put it in his Register article], this was a bit like waking up in bed with someone that you don't remember going home with... and CNET decided to do the sensible thing and wipe the servers clean. Thus ended the largest collection of online music ever amassed in one place. While I find the comparison a bit exaggerated, I found the fact that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com Wikipedia's article about MP3.com] links to the article about the ''Destruction of the Library of Alexandria'' to be a fitting tribute to the spirit in which the site was founded.

==And the beat goes on...==

==And the beat goes on...==