Found Around: The Mulve Mystery
Written by Aidan Rush Posted in: Found Around on October 04, 2010
Update: Mulve has been taken down and its creators have been arrested by UK authorities. Read more on TorrentFreak.
If you follow music business news then you’ve heard there’s a new bandit in town. That’s right, we’re talking about Mulve. In short, this program could very well be kryptonite to the already troubled recorded music industry, and no matter how hard the creators try to spin it like a music discovery utopia, it’s not winning any artists over. For the time being, few facts are known about the project, except that it takes around 4 seconds to download nearly any song you can think of from their servers (10 million songs at your fingertips for free), and that it’s virtually void of any malware. A few rumors have circulated concerning the location and catalog of program, most with the notion that Mulve is really Pirate Bay in disguise and is being hosted on servers in Russia. The site was down temporarily last Monday, and a status update on the group’s Facebook page was posted shortly after saying it was forced to comply with an RIAA take down request. But it’s back up now, so what happened? We’re trying to figure out all of this along with the rest of you, so be sure to leave any information in the comments if you know anything we don’t! The updated hypebot article is posted below. Enjoy?
-Aidan
(Hypebot) Mulve Music Download Tool: Recorded Music Industry's Worst Nightmare Comes True
The RIAA and the entire recorded music industry's worst nightmare may have just come true with the launch of Mulve.com. "Almost too good to be true," squealed TorrentFreak. "With a huge database of songs, Mulve delivers music to users’ desktops at amazing speeds at the touch of a button with zero uploading, meaning that “getting caught” is no longer a concern." Of course, the big question is, how long will it last?
