digital
May 16 2008, 05:17
Muxtape,
Have you cats seen this app' yet? It’s either the biggest, baddest example of blatant music piracy yet - or the most intelligent marketing campaign by a major player to date (note that it points to Amazon.com at every turn...)
www.muxtape.com
Andrew D.
www.cdnav.com
Synthetic Soul
May 16 2008, 06:51
I would say it was neither.
I do think that it is illegal, and also severly flawed in design. It appears to be using Amazon's Simple Storage Service to store the files. Unfortunately the developer seems to have done nothing to stop users accessing the sources (unless you count adding "PLEASE=DO_NOT_STEAL_MUSIC" to the querystring).
It also appears to be getting some attention, which means that it is unlikely to last long: