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.

Boing Boing: RIAA targets mashups