The Daily Swarm

Now, one of Muxtape’s successors, a site named Mixwit, has announced that it is shutting down. The service’s founders didn’t offer an explanation, other than to say the site found itself “between a rock and a hard place.”

The company wrote about the shut-down a week ago on its blog, but sent out notices to members earlier today saying users had under one week before their profiles are eliminated:

We’ve put a year of work into Mixwit so this choice wasn’t taken lightly. I won’t go into the details of our situation but state simply that we boldly marched into in a position best described as “between a rock and a hard place.” We’re very grateful to be have been part of the mixtape revival of ‘08 and are satisfied to be able to to bow out while things are still good.

Earlier: Muxtape…

Sam Gustin has learned that Muxtape, the music sharing site that went down yesterday citing “a problem” with the RIAA, has received numerous requests to take down content the industry group deems “illegal.”

Those requests apparently went unheeded—until yesterday.

I’ve just received the following statement from a RIAA spokesperson regarding Muxtape.

“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.”