Last week's RIAA-assisted shuttering of the shared mixtape site
Muxtape caused many an Internet-savvy person who liked "indie" music and Helvetica to shed a tear or two. But apparently someone out there has decided that Muxtape will not only live on, it will thrive! And grow, like kudzu or dandelions in a field! Behold
Opentape, "a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web." Yes, that's right: For the price of some time slapping the code on a site and some Web space, you can have all the liability that Justin Ouellette had when he was hosting Muxtape users' MP3s on a server that he paid for!
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