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What? Noooo! Muxtape Has Been Shut Down By The RIAAAugust 19th, 2008 at 3:30 amSource:Mashable! Lately, I’ve become a big fan of the simple online mixtape creation tool Muxtape. I’ve always loved creating mixtapes for friends and this tool was the best solution out there; recently, it became so popular that several tools like Muxtape Stumbler have been built around it. Unfortunately, I doubt we’ll be having much more fun with Muxtape in the future, as the site now sports only the following message: Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA. It sounds optimistic, but things rarely turn out that way. Muxtape will probably argue that they cannot control if their users have rights to upload music to the service, but let’s face it, basically no one except the record companies have the right to upload 99.9% of any available music anywhere, and RIAA will simply point that out. Fair enough, but the other side of the coin says that it’s nearly impossible for any startup to legally set up a service that has anything to do with copyrighted music, and therefore most of them (Pandora and Muxtape are two recent examples) will die out in the end, as soon as RIAA and similar entities start perceiving them as a threat. Is that a good thing for the users, music or musicians in general? —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Discover New Music with Muxtape StumblerMuxtape. The Simplest Mixtape Service Yet.RIAA Trial Over: Thomas Found Guilty of InfringementRIAA’s Sacrificial Lamb Appeals Damning Court RulingEMI and RIAA To Call It Quits? Me Thinks No.EMI to Cut RIAA Funding; Death of RIAA Near?RIAA’s Sacrificial Lamb Brought to Trial
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