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Mathew's comments: Muxtape: What’s our lawyer’s number again?

  • Charging Ahead · 1 year ago
    "There are a number of other similar music-sharing sites"
    don't forget imeem.com which launched in 2004 neatly beating all of the other alternative you mentioned, they have gone through all the legal shenanigans and came out the other side with record industry contracts. They're now the most popular streaming music site on the internet with easily twice as many users as last.fm
  • ianbetteridge · 1 year ago
    I really get sick of the techie attitude that if you can write something it's morally ok to do so. If it proves that the "unspecified issues" with the RIAA are around people using third-party scripts to download, I hope that Muxtape stays shut - just so some of the idiots who write those scripts learn that their actions have bad consequences.
  • kb · 1 year ago
    ian.. that's like shutting down the grocery store because kids kept stealing candy from it. A majority of Muxtape users do not use 3rd party scripts to download. Also, the people who actually are using them will find other ways to get free music as well. I'd rather Muxtape open back up.
  • ianbetteridge · 1 year ago
    You're right, of course, kb - but I think it will take something like that happening for the (relatively few) people who do download to learn that their actions have consequences. It's a shame, but perhaps they'll learn.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    I agree, Kb. Muxtape was likely exposing plenty of people to new music
    and artists, just like Last.fm does, or the radio. And you can tape
    things off the radio pretty easily too.