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November 26, 2003

MP3.com will be switched off on December 2, = 2003.

After=20 launching in 1997 as the brainchild of Michael Robertson, = MP3.com=20 became an important distribution outlet for unsigned bands.

By 2000, the site had 40 million subscribers and featured = 120,000=20 bands with a total of 1.6 million songs to download.

Robertson sold out to Vivendi Universal in 2001 and just = a few=20 weeks ago on November 14, Universal sold it to C-Net. Now = C-Net is=20 ready to pull the plug. On December 2 they will wipe their = servers.

It is something that has horrified their loyal bands who=20 generated fans through the community. One of those acts, The = Front=20 Porch Country Band, found they had more than one million = people=20 download their songs.=20

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"It's been a powerful force," says Johnny Jolin, lead = singer for=20 The Front Porch Country Band in a statement. "MP3.com = enabled our=20 music to compete on a level playing field with the world's = greatest=20 country legends."

The future of the assets is now up in the air but one = saviour to=20 the rescue could be archive.org. The non-profit organisation = says it=20 isn't afraid to host the 5 terabytes mp3.com uses.

Mp3.com, as we know it, plans on relaunching as a paid = download=20 site soon.

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