p2pnet - rss feed: Coca-Cola yanks download site
p2p news / p2pnet: Further proof that RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol was blowing smoke - huge clouds of it - when he claimed, “digital downloads have emerged into a growing, thriving business,” has come from a major consumer company.
Confirming the online corporate music business isn’t worth a light, the Coca-Cola company is yanking its UK Net download site on July 1.
In January, 2004, it was the first ‘consumer brand’ to be conned by the Big Four Organized Music cartel into believing corporate download sites were the coming thing.
But thanks to the efforts of Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, who are far more interested in suing their customers than wooing them, the online music industry ’service’ business is dead as a doornail with music lovers instead flocking in their hundreds of millions to the indie sites and p2p networks.
Now mycokemusic.com is going down, and the company isn’t being coy about explaining why.
“When we launched mycokemusic, it was because our consumers [read major labels] told us that this was something they were really interested in,” says the FAQ. “In 2004, the digital music scene was just developing and the only way for Coke to offer access to music downloads was to open our own store.”
But, “That’s not true today and there is no need for Coke to continue to run a store.”
In the unlikely event that you’re one of the 12 people who actually signed up for mycokemusic.com, to find out what’s going to happen to your investment, “you can still receive support from OD2,” says the post. “For further information please email cokedrdownload@od2.com.”
Or head over to the FAQ.
Meanwhile, who’ll be next?
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Also See:
huge clouds of it - P2p file sharing contained: RIAA, June 13, 2006
conned - iTunes vs mycokemusic.com, June 17, 2004
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