Muxtape Temporarily Shut Down by RIAA
It seems tha
t Muxtape, the free online “mixtape”-creation service has temporarily shut their website down - thanks to pressure from the Recording Industry of America (RIAA). There was much speculation about this possibility after Muxtape’s launch, and now it seems that they’ve been caught up with.
Currently (as of 9:48pm PST) the website displays the following message under the logo:
Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.
However, the official Muxtape blog has a better (seeming) news.
No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned.
Beta users of Muxtape For Bands: you are unaffected by this outage.
So - probably not down for good. And while the RIAA has a penchant for frivolous lawsuits, it seems that lately they have been losing. More users are standing up against their ridiculous claims and the EFF and bloggers everywhere are doing the best they can to fight the stupidity. Hopefully we’ll have our wondrous Muxtape back soon.
Story via c|net News
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