Yahoo Is Run By Douche Bags.
There is something a brewing over at Yahoo, that should get all other MP3 Bloggers attention. For months the debate has raged on whether or not MP3 aggregators are dope or not. I think they are cool as long as they dont link directly to the MP3’s, thats the majorest of all douchebaggery things you can do. Turns out now Yahoo has started parsing out MP3 links from the blogs, and making them clickable links downloading those mp3s right from your site all the while the user never visits your page, to read your opinion on that latest Genesis cover. “What’s the big deal?” you maybe asking yourself, “Hype Machine has been pulling our mp3’s for months” you exclaim. True, but hype machine is just small potatoes compared to the publicly traded deep pockets of Yahoo.
All we need is for Yahoo to wave the flag of MP3 blogging and their new terrific parsing technology, everyone starts to pay attention. My Yahoo RSS feeds go through the roof, millions of blogs pop up out of nowhere, each one trying to out perform the last. One of these neo-bloggers from North Dakota stumbles across the new Britney cd 4 weeks prior to its release, he posts the ENTIRE cd, RIAA takes notice, MP3 blogs become the next Grokster. Okay thats worst case scenario, doesn’t change the fact that direct linking MP3’s makes you a douche.