Muxtape shut down by the RIAA
Posted on August 19th, 2008 – 8:44 AMBy Randy Salas
Well, that was bad timing. Today I wrote about the cool website Muxtape, which allows users to upload their MP3s to the website to share as a virtual mixtape. But word now comes that the site is in limbo as of Monday night. A message on the site’s home page says simply: “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.” It will be interesting to see how brief that period turns out to be, considering that this is the same way things unfolded for the guitar-tab archive OLGA, which is still down almost two years later. We’ll keep an eye on this one. Meanwhile, try Mixwit while Muxtape is down.
One response to "Muxtape shut down by the RIAA"
sigh… I look forward to the day we can have sites like this without the looming threat of the RIAA or other beasts coming in and shutting them down. You’d hope that day would come sooner than later, but I’m not going to hold my breath either.
