Muxtape Is Dead - Favtape To Take Its Place?
The Constable on September 26th, 2008
So Muxtape shut down (as we knew it would) due to completely disregarding the RIAA and being unable to come to any agreement with them. Now Favtape is positioned to take its place, but again it’s only a matter of time until this goes the way of the dodo as well.
Unlike Muxtape, Favtape doesn’t host anything itself - but is using Seeqpod instead. Of course, Seeqpod is very likely to get shut down soon for the same reasons services like Grokster got their butts sued - for being a service basically made to allow people to access copyright-protected material. See, Seeqpod is basically a music search engine/player that searches the web for MP3s of specific songs and then loads them in from the host server.
What eventually needs to happen if copyright holders want to keep stopping these services is that it needs to be made very clear that where a file itself is hosted is not the only part of copyright infringement - but building a service to do so is as well. Think of it as murder vs. hiring a hitman - just because someone else does the actual deed doesn’t mean you aren’t responsible at all for making it happen.
