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Bite of the Day: Mixtape, Muxtape - Legal?

Get rid of those cassettes! No more recording from the radio!

Okay, you’ve been making MP3 collections for a while now.

Now, Muxtape and Mixwit offer users the ability to make digital mix-tapes. There is a difference between the two. Muxtape is a less-developed site depending on its users for uploading and creating. Mixwit goes a bit further. It allows users to search, relying on SeeqPod and Skreemr to put together digital mix-tapes for friends, family and crushes.

Here’s the catch. As Daniel Terdiman writes on news.com, “Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn have noted, Muxtape appears to be a legal time bomb, merely awaiting the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America, while Mixwit seems to exist on firmer legal footing.”