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WIRED MAGAZINE REPORTS MAJOR LABEL RECORD COMPANIES INVOLVED IN NEW MYSPACE MUSIC !!

WIRED MAGAZINE- April 3 2008 http://www.wired.com/wired/

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- MySpace, which has lured millions of big acts and garage bands alike to build profiles on the popular social networking hub to attract fans, said Thursday it will turn those pages into portals for selling music, merchandise and more.

Helping back the new MySpace Music are three of the biggest recording companies -Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed, but each of the music companies will receive an unspecified equity stake in the new company, said Chris DeWolfe, MySpace co-founder and chief executive. The fourth-largest music company, EMI Group PLC, is not part of the deal. DeWolfe said MySpace is in licensing talks with "everyone" but declined to say where discussions stand with EMI, home to artists such as Coldplay and Norah Jones.

MySpace Music, which will roll out gradually in coming months, will enable artists to sell music downloads, concert tickets and merchandise such as T-shirts through their profile pages and to offer ringtones through a unit of MySpace parent News Corp.

"We believe that the Web is becoming increasingly more social," DeWolfe said during a conference call. "MySpace Music is a new way of experiencing music online that everyone can participate in."

Fans also will be able stream audio and video for free through musical artists' profile pages.

DeWolfe said some tracks will be sold without copy-protection safeguards but noted that the major labels had committed only to experimenting with offering content in an unrestricted format. Selling music without the copy protections that make such tracks incompatible with Apple Inc.'s iPod music players could place MySpace Music in direct competition with existing digital music stores such as Apple's iTunes, Amazon.com, Napster Inc. and others, analysts said.

"It's definitely got a lot of potential to it, but how much it really changes the game is yet to be determined," said Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director for JupiterResearch.

"This is one of those important events in the history of digital music and it has a lot of potential going forward."

MySpace may also be looking for ways to maintain its lead on rival social network Facebook, which has been gaining in popularity.

James McQuivey, digital music analyst for Forrester Research, noted that the venture is wisely aiming to serve as a one-stop portal for music fans.

"A MySpace music store is exactly the right step to get the music industry to the next level because it recognizes that consumers don't just buy music, they experience it ... That's what people do with music already on MySpace, it's what has made Last.FM and iMeem.com so popular so quickly," he said.

The company declined to discuss pricing or other revenue details. In 2006, MySpace began letting artists sell music from their profile pages using a third-party technology, but that capability never was integrated into the site the way MySpace Music's storefront will be, DeWolfe said. MySpace, which boasts more than 110 million monthly users, has more than 5 million profile pages showcasing major label artists, independents and unsigned acts. All those artists would eventually be able to take advantage of MySpace Music's offerings, the company said.

MySpace Music will operate as a separate company, with a president who reports to DeWolfe and to a board of directors that will include representatives from the recording companies. MySpace had been discussing the venture with music companies for several months, during which MySpace and Universal Music overcame a major hurdle - a copyright infringement lawsuit Universal brought against MySpace in 2006 over alleged illegal music sharing. The two companies settled the dispute when MySpace agreed to pay Universal $100 million, according to a person familiar with the settlement who spoke on condition of anonymity because the terms are confidential. Sony BMG is a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG. Shares of Warner Music rose 2 cents to close at $5.81. News Corp. shares rose 17 cents to $20.17.

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ALTERNATIVES TO MYSPACE

So I been searching for good alternatives to myspace and been up against really bad terms of service for most sites. Most sites want to have ownership of the content in order to re publish it on the internet. While this is important, most sites are using terms of service that put all the ownership control into thier hands so they can do whatever they want with your songs/content. Most can make compilation CDs include your songs and not ask you pay royalties or even tell you that they are doing it. So I have been battling with these sites to have them make their terms of service more artist friendly. I have found one site that I like

FUZZ.com

http://instantasshole.fuzz.com/

Fuzz started out with bad terms and has since changed them based on my input. They are SF based and run by musicians that I know personally. Its a good site that serves as a good alternative to myspace for musicians and bands.

Check out http://www.FUZZ.com and join! And leave rupert murdock with the yuppies christians and censors to themselves back at myspace.

Instant Asshole will be keeping their myspace site but moving all content to :

http://instantassshole.fuzz.com

The myspace site will serve to direct people to our new pages and to hold the INSTANT ASSHOLE spot here so we can retain public use of the name

peace,

John the Baker