Popular mixtape-making website Muxtape is down today, saying only:
“Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.”
The muxtape blog goes on a little to say that “No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned.”
A cnet article speculates that the RIAA may be after royalties for streaming media for the thousnads of music files that stream from the service every day. Pitchfork’s article even suggest it could be a publicity stunt. The last time I checked out the service, I noticed it used a simple mp3-streaming mechanism for media delivery that left copies of everything you played in your browser’s cache (a trick I really love).
