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Chilling Effects: Another Mixtape Provider Shut Down
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| A few months ago, the RIAA shut down Muxtape, a very popular and incredibly
| useful online service that let individuals create "mixtapes" for streaming to
| others. As anyone with even a hint of business sense would recognize, this
| was a great promotional tool for musicians. I, personally, ended up buying a
| bunch of music after hearing stuff from others on Muxtape. But the way some
| of the big record labels see things, no one should be allowed to innovate
| without paying the record labels directly for the right to do so.
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| It seems this trend is continuing. Mixwit is the latest to shut down.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081218/0311073161.shtml
Record Labels Continue To Go After Music Startups
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| On Friday, we wrote about how the likelihood of eventual lawsuits created a
| chilling effect that shut down Mixwit, a useful online mixtape service
| provider. It seemed quite unlikely that Mixwit was violating copyrights, as
| it didn't host any music nor make the music that people played through
| available for download.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081221/2103273183.shtml
It's time to send the MAFIAA along with Icahn and Madoff back to the zoo.
Recent:
RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs
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| The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after
| talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end
| user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption
| because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at
| that point the filter would work."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-riaa-boss-spyware-could-solve-the-encryption-problem.html
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