Muxtape Explains RIAA Shutdown

Apparently we haven’t heard the last of Muxtape, the free music “mix tape” service that the RIAA had shut down due to copyright infringement.

AppScout reports that in a letter posted on the company’s Web site, Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette said that the RIAA either didn’t know or didn’t care that Muxtape was already in talks with the four major record labels, and demanded that Amazon Web Services shut down the servers that Muxtape was hosted on.

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