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...TIME.com: This is getting complicated. Why doesn't Vivendi just sell its music at Vivendi.com? Or Duet.com - the name of the project they're already partnered in with Sony...
...Vivendi Universal, one of music's Big Five, will acquire Mp3.com, the first of the online free-music outlaws, for $372 million - $5 a share for a stock that once saw the 70s - in what's becoming quite a scramble by the Big Five to get in on the business that Mp3.com started and Napster made dangerous: Online music distribution...
...plus for Universal is to get that distribution channel. MusicNet has AOL behind it, and although Yahoo is involved with Duet, this gives Universal an experienced, in-house distributor that already has a brand presence out there. And as a bonus, Vivendi Universal basically owns about 150,000 titles that Mp3.com already owned...
...sort of sad. A lot of independent-minded artists had signed on with Mp3.com because they wanted an alternative to being on a big label - now they're all basically Vivendi Universal property, and another Web maverick is gone...
...temporary Balkanization. The big labels will be very stupid if they don't get together eventually, and I think that's inevitable, even if there are separate distribution channels. If people have to shop by label, they're going to go to Gnutella. I think this acquisition by Vivendi is probably just strengthening their hand for the big negotiations to come...