A spinoff company from Vivendi that includes former executives of MP3.com has acquired the music archive from its parent, and will make it available to its business customers. In addition to the physical archive, the newly independent TruSonic has also acquired rights to the streaming software developed at MP3.com.
When in November, mega tech portal CNET acquired the MP3.com domain name, Vivendi had already indicated that it was no longer interested in hosting the 1.5 million song archive. Despite a spirited campaign by MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, who sold MP3.com to VU in 2001, and an offer to host the collection by Archive.org founder Brewster Kahle, Vivendi shut off public access to the music in December. [more @ www.theregister.co.uk]