Grand Larseny

Remember creating mix tapes for your friends, carefully choosing their audio experience?  Me neither, but I wish I did.  Muxtape endeavors to bring that feeling back for the first time.

They used to be a fast rising star in the internet world until the reality of band labels hit them.  It’s an interesting story.  Now they seem to be creating a service that if you want in, you have to play by their rules.  They are fair rules; fair to the content creators, fair to the users, and fair to the good folks at Muxtape.  Independent labels recognize the value in Muxtape and are signing on.  Big labels recognize the value, but their lawyers want money first.  At some point the business people will hopefully convince the lawyers that the money will come in some other way and roses will bloom on the mountainside and beer will flow from the heavens.  It will be sticky.

If you happened to try a Google search sometime this morning between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST you would have noticed that every result was marked as potential unsafe to your computer.  That’s because Google decided that the entire internet is probably malicious.

Google attempted to fix this problem by unchecking the “entire internet” option on the list of bad sites, rather than actually address the issue at hand.  To really fix the internet we’d pretty much have to start all over again with new people.  Blogs would definitely be out.