The RIAA, that is the Recording Industry Association of America, has claimed another victim in its fight against any form of music exchange that users and providers do not pay for. It hit Muxtape this time, a website that was reviewed not long ago here at Ghacks.
Muxtape provided a great way to upload mp3 songs to their website creating a mixtape like song collection on the website. It had some limits like a maximum song size of 10 Megabytes and only one mixtape per account but what made it great was the ability to share the mixtape with friends.
The music collection was publicly accessible which was probably the main reason the RIAA stepped in although I cannot find a difference between listening to music on a website and listening to music on Radio or Youtube.
If you open Muxtape right now you notice only one sentence and no way to access any of the services of the website: “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.”
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I’ve never heard of it but as I said on marshable, so what? -.-
“what made it great was the ability to share the mixtape with friends.”
Go and look at imeem.com, playlist.com or seeqpod.com – they all allow you to share ‘playlists’.
What’s the difference between a muxtape and a playlist?
Well a muxtape can have only 12 tracks, playlists don’t have any limits.
Now I’ll admit that 2 of those sites are only playing tracks found on 3rd party sites so you can’t really upload tunes – and playlist.com and seeqpod.com are both getting sued right now.
But if you want to upload then imeem is the place to go. Everything you can do on muxtape you can do on imeem. The downside is that it is legal and pays all the artists so it has a lot of advertising, it’s also hugely popular and is stuffed with people building playlists of their favorite lil’ wayne ‘Jamzzzz’
RIAAA sucks!!!
The RIAA is driving fans and money away from established, recording industry hacks and right into the hands of indie artists. So, their campaign is ultimately not so bad.
In the end those they claim to serve end up losing and those that were never served will end up winning.
We’re not letting them go down without a fight. Please spread the word about SaveMuxtape.com
The difference between listening on Muxtape or Radio, is that radio pays rights for the music they play…