my.mp3.com

my.mp3.com: This is big. Huge. And I had a rant about firewalls right here all ready to go when I decided to give it one more try and yes! I can listen to every CD I own from anywhere I am streamed over the Net shoutcast-style! Well, every CD which mp3.com “knows about” and which I have told mp3.com I own by sticking it in my CD-ROM drive at home. What a small price to pay – now I can take my iBook anywhere there’s a net connection and all of my music is a few clicks away. This really blows me away, I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more coverage. My only guess is that people just don’t understand the implications here. What kind of deals must mp3.com have made with the recording industry? What kind of database of mp3s must they be sitting on top of? I’ve thought for years that apart from backups and temporary local copies and such, only one instance of anything in any media really needs to exist in this digital age. mp3.com has the music locked down, peanut press is working on the books. You know that ad with the bored woman (who acts a lot like Dr. Katz' receptionist) working at a motel in the middle of nowhere, telling a customer that they have “all movies ever made any time any place whenever you want instantly” or something like that? If Steve Case has any vision at all that’s what he sees.