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Shuttered Muxtape included on PC Magazine's list of top "undiscovered" sites

By Jackson West, 12:20 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008, 551 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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PC Magazine includes Muxtape in its latest listicle, the "Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites," even though the RIAA's already "discovered" it, triggering a shutdown. Poor Kyle Monson, the writer of the piece — those cushy, weeks-long magazine lead times from when a piece is submitted to when it's published do have their downsides.

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