From NYmag.com:
Muxtape Shut Down by the Man, Pandora Probably Next
Photo: muxtape.com
Yesterday, playlist-sharing, music-streaming Website Muxtape was predictably shuttered by the RIAA following five awesome months of operation. Like all popular music-related things these days, the site was probably totally illegal, though a post on the official Muxtape tumblr claims "No artists or labels have complained" (not even Prince?) and "The site is not closed indefinitely." This comes as the label-sanctioned artist-recommendation service Pandora is facing its own shutdown over royalty fees that are now approaching 70 percent of the company's revenue, which bums us out to no end. Pandora Radio is one of the few iPhone applications actually worth the battery drain. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, we guess we'll just assume the labels prefer that we continue discovering our music with Google's helpful Blog Search function.
Posted on 08/19/2008
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This site does the same thing...wonder if they are next...
http://www.mixwit.com/create
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no doubt its on the list...
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Yeah, it's all shades of BOOO-HISSSSS. And I fear that I already wasted too many words on them.
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Too bad -- I can't believe they can't work something out based on revenue growth for Pandora.
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I just read the news via BuzzFeed. :/
Pop Savant, I wondered the same about Mixwit a while back, but now they link to Amazon and Itunes. Also, Mixwit doesn't host any music as they use the Skreemr and Seeqpod search engines. I don't know if that puts them in the clear, though.
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If the man comes down on this site, they could disable the uploading "red button" and then everything would be host by Rhapsody "yellow button" but of course Rhapsody doesn't have everything that folks post here.
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Dam shame but not a surprise, seems the bigger the pile of money you have the more time you spend running around protecting it
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gat damn... why can't they just take a few ZILLION valium & collectively chill ?!?
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I don't think is an artist making a million dollars is the issue here IMHO.
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wasn't speaking about the artists - speaking about THE MAN...
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Lizziegreeneyes :Cool! I think bands like NIN, Primus, Mike Patton, did the right thing by leaving their labels. They got the freedom to post their music up for the taking or not. Most artist make more money on touring and merchandise like t-shirts. Iron Maiden did.
;)
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Totally agree with you on that... Hopefully it will keep catching on & more & more artists will either find the really small labels that ACTUALLY care about the artists - or they will do their own thing & recoup the money via tix & merch !!!
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My 2 cents; Have you ever seen a photo of the RIAA president's home? You'll know where all the money is going....Its not about the artists its about the lobbyists.
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Everything the RIAA touches turns to poop. Such a backasswards orginization.
But you don't upload to mixwit so its not the same, is it?
I just don't understand why folks like the RIAA aren't working with websites that create excitement around music..when the traditional vehicles are all dying off on a weekly basis. Their shortsighted strategy hasn't done a goddddddamn thing. It's so weird to see these people who saw the CD as a money making innovation can't make the leap and latch on to new innovations like muxtape. Makes me ill..
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I just don't understand why folks like the RIAA aren't working with websites that create excitement around music.
AMEN MY CODYBro !!! You said it right there...
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My sentiments exactly!
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funoka makes a good point - the only problem is that I doubt Rhapsody has 10 percent of the really interesting songs that get posted here....
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Has any site ever gone to the RIAA fascists and said, 'What about us, are we OK? Do you want to give us 5 stars or something? RECOMMENDED BY THE RIAA!'
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Here's their superfun list of legal sites..
http://www.riaa.com/toolsforparents.php?content_selector=legal_music_sites
Look..first the industry made their product free and ubiquitous, tied it to directly to visual advertising, and dumbed it down. (MTV) Sure there had always been a market for kids buying music, but the biz focused almost solely on the kids and formulas-hair metal,boy bands, etc. and totally abandoned developing artists in favor of sure-fire formula acts aimed at kids.
This was all done by people who, as fans made Rock n' Roll into a sanctified thing, with legends, rebellion, and an outsider mentality. Once in charge though the baby boomers bled pop music dry, selling it to the highest bidder.
Then came the ultimate insult,the CD..turning music into software containing unprotected files...Some folks made a mint but they destroyed their industry.
Now, they are essentially going after home tapers and fanzine editors..stupid,greedy,intractable MF's.
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WE MUST REVOLT
somehow
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Lawyers, guns and money,
Support EFF
Send them 20 bucks, the cost of two album downloads, or more if you can afford it, you won't regret it.
It might not help an awful lot in the long run but at least it makes me feel like I'm doing something pro-active.
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DAMNIT
i wanna blow stuff up
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Lizzie, why is it always "The Man" that gets blamed, you sure there are no women behind this sort of crap? ;)
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true the former president of the RIAA was a woman...she got out before things got really ugly(or was pushed out)
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As ever, this is more about bucks than Mux.