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Muxtape, the free online music startup, went down yesterday due to a conflict with RIAA (Recoding Industry Association of America). According to Muxtape’s official blog, they didn’t receive complain from any artist or label and also said that the site is not shut down permanently. Now RIAA has come up with an accusation that the online music startup was hosting some of the illegal content.
Here is what RIAA’s spokesperson had to say on the current issue:
For the past several months, we have communicated our legal concerns with the site and repeatedly tried to work with them to have illegal content taken down. Muxtape was hosting copies of copyrighted sound recordings without authorization from the copyright owners. Making these recordings available for streaming playback also requires authorization from the copyright owners. Muxtape has not obtained authorization from our member companies to host or stream copies of their sound recordings.
Although RIAA has proved stubborn but Muxtape’s attitude can’t be appreciated as well. The question here is why did the later took the issue lightly when they were being communicated for several months. Is this their ignorance or their wrong attitude?
Though the Beta users of the startup won’t be affected with this outage, it will certainly affect its popularity one way or the other.
