I got my first email from CNET music today (they bought mp3.com a few months ago). It sounds like they’re going to offer a service similar to mp3.com, at least in terms of music hosting, so that should be good. Hopefully they can team up with Creative Commons to make it easy for people to grant liberal copyright licenses in their works, enable others to actually find the music through the machine readable licenses, and thus ease the spread of truly independent music.

When music.download.com launches in March of this year, artists will be able to register, create an artist, enter songs and artist data, upload MP3 files, and visit the resulting artist page. We'll also be offering simple Download.com URLs that can be used to direct users to your artist page.

Sounds pretty simple, but I'm not asking for much.