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.”Filling the void now, Opentape.fm stands alone. And fittingly so. Opentape is software that allows people to host their own mixtapes. And it's open source. That combination of features will make it very hard for the music industry to shut down due to their copyright concerns. And if Mixwit donates their code to Opentape as suggested on their blog, Opentape will only get better and stronger.
Boffin + Wonk
A journal of internet technology law and policy
Andy is an internet policy analyst with the Government of Canada, with a background in technology law and an interest in how collaborative and social technologies are reshaping industries, governments, societies and the world. See more from me at http://kaplan-myrth.ca.
Unless otherwise noted, photographs, videos and audio files on this website are copyright 2000-2009 in Canada by Andy Kaplan-Myrth. All other content on this website, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence that allows you to use, reuse and modify this content as long as you give me credit and put your own new work under the same Creative Commons licence.
Get Updates
Subscribe via RSS »Mixwit shutting down
There was a mixtape revival in 2008, and it looks to be over. First
there was Muxtape, which provided a
cassette tape interface for audio playlists. Then there was Mixwit, doing basically the
same thing. Then Muxtape shut
down under threat from the music labels, and judging by the tag
line on the new Muxtape website, "relaunching soon, in the service
of bands", founder Justin Ouellette hopes to go legal. Now comes
news that Mixwit is closing its doors as well, saying
Comments (0)
Leave a comment...