After finding out it was all right to switch things up in class, I have decided to return to my first idea. Muxtape…
Muxtape was an online, kind of/sort of (I say this because although it was, It was not its main proposed function) social networking site that enabled its users to upload virtual mixtapes that can then be exchanged and searched for in the hopes of discovering new music. However, due to licensing problems with the RIAA and pressure from the major labels the site is temporarily shut down, only to be “relenting as a service exclusively for bands, offering an extremely powerful platform with unheard-of simplicity for artists to thrive on the Internet.”
This presents my Travel Destination in two parts for Muxtape, both of which regard corporate control on the Internet. First I will be discovering what threat Muxtape served online and how its presence was quickly stifled. Second, I will be taking the way this happened the first time to examine whether their new concept for Muxtape is plausibly successful or if it will have to give in to/ be shut down by corporate and legal pressures?
