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"Lately, I've become a big fan of the simple online mixtape creation tool Muxtape. I've always loved creating mixtapes for friends and this tool was the best solution out there; recently, it became so popular that several tools like Muxtape Stumbler have been built around it. \nUnfortunately, I doubt we'll be having much more fun with Muxtape in the future, as the site now sports only the following message: \nMuxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA. \nIt sounds optimistic, but things rarely turn out that way. Muxtape will probably argue that they cannot control if their users have rights to upload music to the service, but let's face it, basically no one except the record companies have the right to upload 99.9% of any available music anywhere, and RIAA will simply point that out. \nFair enough, but the other side of the coin says that it's nearly impossible for any startup to legally set up a service that has anything to do with copyrighted music, and therefore most of them (Pandora and Muxtape are two recent examples) will die out in the end, as soon as RIAA and similar entities start perceiving them as a threat. Is that a good thing for the users, music or musicians in general?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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