MP3. com
URL	http://www.mp3.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Music
Registration	Optional
Owner	CNET Networks
Created by	Michael Robertson

MP3. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. CNET Networks Inc is a media company based in San Francisco California, United States, and is part of CBS Interactive, owned com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages CNET Networks Inc is a media company based in San Francisco California, United States, and is part of CBS Interactive, owned It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting their work. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a It was named after the popular music file format, MP3. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression It was shut down on December 2, 2003 at 12:00 p. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. m. PST by CNET, which, after purchasing the domain name (but not MP3. The Pacific Time Zone observes Standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC-8) com's technology or music assets), established the current MP3. com site.

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History

MP3. com was founded in 1998 by Michael Robertson, as part of Z Company. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Michael Robertson may refer to Michael Robertson (tennis player 1963 (born 1963 South African born U

The company ran a variety of websites (namely filez. com, websitez. com, sharepaper. com purchased from Lars Matthiassen). The idea to purchase the MP3. com domain arose from watching the search traffic on filez. com, an ftp search site that in first incarnation simply shunted queries to an existing free search engine developed by graduate students (Led by Tor Egge, who later founded Fast Search and Transfer based on this search engine) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology — and slapped a banner MP3. Fast Search & Transfer ASA ( Recursive acronym FAST) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo. com hosted songs from a wide range of artists, including now-famous names such as Linkin Park then known as Hybrid Theory and already well known artist David Bowie, who posted his own rare tracks and a cover contest page. Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger.

The vast majority of content on MP3. com was posted by unsigned or independent musicians and producers. Many of these artists worked in the then emerging forms of electronic music, including ambient, trance, drum n' bass, and various types of house music. One of their most high profile releases was a song/score soundtrack for the film Three Kings which was otherwise unreleased. Three Kings is a 1999 action - comedy - drama War film written and directed by David O It was made available as a packaged CD with video interviews with Ice Cube. O'Shea Jackson (born June 15 1969 better known by his Stage name Ice Cube, is an American Actor, Screenwriter, producer, and

MP3. com went public on July 21, 1999 and raised over $370 million. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) At that time, this was the single largest technology IPO to date. Initial public offering (IPO, also referred to simply as a "public offering" is when a company issues Common stock or shares to the public for the first The stock was offered at $28 per share, rose to $105 per share during the day and closed at $63. 3125.

At the end of 1999 MP3. com launched a revolutionary promotion, called "Pay for Play," or P4P, consisting in paying each artist present in the site on the basis of the number of streaming and downloads of his tunes.

Alanis Morissette was an early investor in the site after it sponsored one of her tours. Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1 1974 is a Canadian-born Singer-songwriter, Record producer, and Actress. ^[1] She owned nearly 400,000 shares in the company which she sold off through a series of SEC filings in late 1999 and early 2000. In financial markets, a share is a Unit of account for various financial instruments including Stocks Mutual funds Limited partnerships The US Securities and Exchange Commission (commonly known as the SEC) is an independent agency of the United States government which holds primary responsibility ^[1][2] Her holdings and profit from the ventured topped $3. 4 million dollars at her exit. ^[1]

Artists provided 4 days (96 hours) of audio content per day from Summer 1999 to Summer of 2003. This equates to about 1 song per minute or 16 listening years of audio content over a 4 year period. A staff of trained music experts reviewed all content prior to publication to prevent uploads of pirated materials.

At its peak, MP3. com delivered over 4 million MP3 formatted audio files per day to over 800,000 unique users on a customer base of 25 million registered users. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression This was about 4 terabytes of data delivery per month from three data centers. A terabyte (derived from the prefix Tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. Engineers at MP3. com designed and built the Pressplay infrastructure, eventually purchased by Roxio and renamed Napster. pressplay is a trademark of the Multimedia- agency pressplay created in 1999 in Cologne by Ludger Hoffacker and Stefan Roettger ( visual artists, moviedirectors & photographers Roxio is a division and brand of Sonic Solutions. It was originally a digital media company created from the 2001 spin-off of Adaptec 's Software Products Group followed Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston and operating MP3. com also managed eMusic, Rollingstone.com and Vivendi Universal music properties. eMusic is an Online music store that operates by Subscription. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published VIVENDI is a software package for care management and staff organisation published by the German software company CONNEXT and introduced in 1995 MP3. com engineering developed their own Content Delivery Network and data warehousing technologies handling seven terabytes of customer profile information. A Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network ( CDN) is a system of Computers networked together across the Internet that

Infrastructure

The technology infrastructure at MP3. com consisted of over 1500 simple Intel based servers running Red Hat Linux (versions 5. 2–7. 2) in load balanced clusters in data centers run by AT&T, Worldcom and the now defunct Exodus Communications. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and Exodus Communications was an Internet hosting service and Internet service provider to dot-com businesses. It was one of the first massively scalable Internet architectures for media delivery. The software of choice was C, Perl, Apache, Squid, MySQL some Oracle and Sybase. tags please moot on the talk page first! --> In Computing, C is a general-purpose cross-platform block structured NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below Squid is a Proxy server and Web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses from speeding up a Web server by caching repeated requests MySQL is a Relational database management system (RDBMS which has more than 11 million installations Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE is Sybase Corporation's flagship enterprise-class Relational database management system product This architecture routinely pushed 1. 2 Gbit/s total traffic globally.

My. MP3. com

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On January 12, 2000, MP3. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. com launched the "My. MP3. com" service which enabled users to securely register their personal CDs and then stream digital copies online from the My. MP3. com service. Since consumers could only listen online to music they already proved they owned the company saw this as a great opportunity for revenue by allowing fans to access their own music online. The record industry did not see it that way and sued MP3. com claiming that the service constituted unauthorized duplication and promoted copyright infringement.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3. Jed Saul Rakoff (born 1943 is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. UMG Recordings, Inc v MP3com, Inc 92 F Supp 2d 349 (SDNY 2000) was a landmark case before Judge Jed S com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner. " Rather than fight on appeal, MP3. com settled with the major labels for more than $200 million and the service was discontinued. This decision turned out to be the beginning of the end of the original MP3. com as the firm, unaware of the impending dot-com bust, no longer had sufficient funds to weather the technology downturn. The " dot-com bubble " (or sometimes the " IT bubble " was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 (with a climax on March 10 To add to their woes music publishers, spurred by the success of the record label suits, also sued MP3. com with their own claims of payment due.

MP3. com sold

Weakened financially, MP3. com was eventually acquired by Vivendi Universal in May of 2001 for $372 million in cash and stock. VIVENDI is a software package for care management and staff organisation published by the German software company CONNEXT and introduced in 1995 Vivendi had difficulties growing the service and eventually dismantled the original site, selling off all of its assets including the URL and logo to CNET in 2003.

E-mails to MP3. com artists and a placeholder message at MP3. com announced that CNET would be coming up with replacement services in the future, based around its current download.com facilities. Downloadcom is an Internet Download directory Website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET.

A business unit of MP3. com, Trusonic, which provides background music and messaging services to retailers, acquired licenses with 250,000 artists representing 1. Trusonic is a commercial music company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fluid Media Networks 7 million songs. Trusonic partnered with GarageBand.com to revive these artist accounts. GarageBandcom is a large Online community of independent musicians and music fans Trusonic retained most of the software technology developed at MP3. com.

External links

• mp3.com
• GarageBand
• RIAA Sues MP3.com - January 2000 article on the music industry's lawsuit against My. MP3. com
• old mp3.com pages on the internet archive

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