Yahoo! Re-Invents The Wheel, Again

When you read stories like this, don’t you picture the kid running up to the school bus just as the doors close and the bus starts to pull away? Should the bus stop or keep going?

Yahoo Inc., is in early discussions with major record labels over offering unprotected MP3s either for sale or for free as part of an ad-supported service, two record company executives familiar with the talks said Wednesday.

The talks, held as recently as last month, were preliminary because Yahoo is still working out the details, said the executives, who requested anonymity because of the discussions were confidential.

Yahoo hopes to launch the service this year, they said.

Wow. How innovative. They hope to launch a music download service. This year. Hold me, I think I am going to cry. Next thing you know they’ll invent something like digital cameras or something.