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Mulve, the free and non-P2P music download app, shut down by RIAA
TorrentFreak is reporting that Mulve, just one week after we first wrote about it, has been shut down by the RIAA. It seems that, while the RIAA was unable to touch the majority of the service, Mulve had a portion of its site hosted with USA-based Hostgator. All it took was one DMCA cease-and-desist letter, and Mulve is now offline.As to why Mulve (which is a concatenation of 'Music Love,' according to its developers) had its website hosted in the USA, who knows. Perhaps they hadn't figured on receiving quite so much attention last week -- or maybe they're just new to the RIAA rigmarole. Mulve told TorrentFreak that the downtime is only temporary, but no ETA was given for its return.
There's a silver lining, though: pirateapp, an open source variant of Mulve that downloads music from the same place at the same high speeds, still works.
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Subscribe to commentsSpankySep 29th 2010 10:25AM
The RIAA hit Grooveshark this week as well. Apparently, their deranged children have gone back to school so it's time to head to the laboratory to crank out more cease and desist letters.
What was odd about the latest Grooveshark salvo was how many of the take down notices involved live recordings. Bands that saw their music flagged for violations included Dave Matthews and Gov't Mule. The Gov't Mule flags were particularly odd since they have a fairly fan friendly taping/distribution policy.
Grooveshark, incidentally, stops anyone that receives an RIAA flag from uploading any more tracks - ever again. The cat and mouse game involves creating quick accounts, upping songs knowing it will be the last time, and then logging into your VIP account and "following" your now upload prohibited zombie account.
johnSep 29th 2010 9:54AM
Like a said, a long time ago, there is only one good way to download without troubles: Usenet newsgroups ( list of Usenet providers: http://www.start-newsgroup.com )
Never RIAA, HADOPI and others will takes down….
i love usenet
FranklinSep 29th 2010 12:53PM
"pirateapp".
well at least they were honest when naming their app. :)
Mldy291Sep 29th 2010 3:02PM
Works fine for me still in the UK
Level 5Sep 30th 2010 8:53PM
False, still works just fine for me.
jdlygaOct 1st 2010 2:53PM
I've been bouncing between Mulve and Pirateapp for like a week now. First Mulve would go down and Pirateapp would work, then Pirateapp would go down and Mulve would start working again. It's weird since they supposedly both use the same service.