Is the RIAA targeting the Electronic Arts-owned Sims karaoke site?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:24:11 -0700

Muxtape is currently shut down. Pandora is claiming it may go too. Both sites are social applications for playing, and sharing music, and while users are certainly missing both sites, neither site appearing in the RIAA's or SoundExchange's crosshairs is much of a surprise.

What is a surprise, however, is that licensing issues have affected even smaller sites. Launched in beta last fall, The Sims On Stage is an Electronic Arts (EA) site that lets users submit video or audio files of karaoke performances, which other users can then rate and comment on. Users of the site received an email today alerting them that some of their webcam performances "will no longer be available" and that other songs will no longer have a video option available for recording.

EA offered no explanation of the changes other than "a recent development with song licenses."

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Is the RIAA targeting the Electronic Arts-owned Sims karaoke site?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:24:11 -0700

EA offered no explanation of the changes other than "a recent development with song licenses."

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Is the RIAA targeting the Electronic Arts-owned Sims karaoke site?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:24:11 -0700

EA offered no explanation of the changes other than "a recent development with song licenses."

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