RIAA takes down music downloading application Mulve

The hottest music downloading application, Mulve, that hit the Internet last week has been taken down by RIAA. We knew it would happen – we just didn’t expect it to happen so soon.

Mulve is not a traditional P2P application that functions by sharing among peers. The application pulls music from an array of fast servers in Russia connected to the country’s biggest social networking site. Mulve created quite a buzz on The Internet. The developers claimed a database of 10 million tracks and download speeds were exceptional. Within hours of going live the site was seeing 30,000 visitors a day and carrying out around 15000 searches every hour.

Even though Mulve itself didn’t host any files, the RIAA appears to have discovered that a tiny element of the site was hosted with US-based Hostgator -  a fateful mistake. This enabled RIAA to quickly take down the site.

“Just letting you know that Mulve has received a DMCA take down request from the RIAA, so it needed to be taken offline,” a Mulve spokesman said. The developers have however assured that they are working on a new update which will improve the application. But there are no news on when the site and the application will return.

[via Torrent Freak]