Decius wrote:

Ethanol Demagogue wrote:

MashupTown, a site that hosts and distributes mashups (two or more songs ingeniously mixed together to make a third) has taken down all of its files after complaints from the RIAA to its hosting partner.

Mashups are a really dumb target for the RIAA. There's just no universe in which someone who downloads a mashup of Prince's 1999 and the Benny Goodman orchestra performing "In the Mood" thinks, Well, now I've heard that, I have no need to buy the CDs those songs originated on.

Disregarding my own feelings about it entirely, this just seems like a silly thing to go after. Why not go after the dyed-in-the-wool "pirates" who are their biggest losses. Well, they already are, I suppose, but this seems an odd digression.

You know, I saw this post, and it didn't seem to me like the RIAA was actually specifically targetting them at all. They got a form email that was sent out to everyone on Live365 telling them that they need to make sure they are in compliance with a litany of (admittedly poor) DMCA regulations on Internet Radio. It had nothing to do with them.

You caught me. That's what I get for going with BoingBoing without verifying. A decent source, definitely runs skewed from time to time.

RE: Boing Boing: RIAA targets mashups