No more eBaying your tunes…
Remember when we predicted that eBay's idea of allowing folks to sell digital music downloads would be a "smoldering wreck of an idea with little chunks of burning idea all over the place"? Well, we hadn't been right, but we were right. In the first hours after the site went live, a few songs appeared for sale (by people not authorized to sell them) and they were removed just as quickly as they went up. Since then there haven't been any more uploads and it looks like they're killing it off: "We may look at the results of this and say, 'Alright, this didn't work, the community didn't like that,'" eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said.
"We have no idea, honestly."