The creators of the Mulve service for downloading music from VKontakte are arrested

Last month, a new service Mulve (abbreviated from Music Love) was launched, allowing you to download music from Vkontakte. It was not heard about him in Russia, the service was hosted in the UK and was targeted at foreign users. The site simply indexed the “contact” music base and let users download files from there. Despite the fact that as such information was not hosted on it, it was closed at the request of the RIAA, and its creators were arrested.

Having opened in September, the service worked for a while, and then came down, unable to bear the load. After some time, he returned to the ranks in order to disappear again due to a suit from the RIAA .

At the moment, the creators of the site who were arrested in Britain cannot give their comments, but, according to torrentfreak.com, those arrested simply cannot be charged with anything, since Mulve was just a search engine. The site did not store music on their servers, did not organize data based on user requests. All he did was pull out music from Contact servers located in Russia.

It is worth noting that in addition to Mulve from similar services there is a free iPhone app for Vkontakte music, as well as a simple player known to us and its analogues. It is also interesting that the arrested guy was not directly involved in coding the service, he was the creator of the video (probably this ), which served as a reason for the arrest.
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Also in a previous article, torrentfreak writes that the formal reason for the initiation of the case was that part of the site was hosted by Hostgator in the US. Which part is not clear.

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For a snack - a small timeline from Twitter guys:

• May 21, 2010 - official start of the service
• summer - promotion
• September 24 - falls due to overloads, processing service
• September 25 - new service start, appearance of video
• October 8 - site closure upon request of the RIAA