Mulve: super fast music discovery and no P2P in sight

The software is downloading music from vKontakte (a russian Facebook clone) and maybe does some more indexing because it can display the bitrate of the songs. vKontakte has all the music, because they provide a music locker service to their users.

Ten steps backwards? How is this any different from just hosting a website with tons of mp3 files?

It's cool, but the title is misleading, it's not really music discovery, just search and download.

Mulve: a RIAA lobbyist's wet dream, and a Spotify killer. Wonderful. Was the current piracy regime so badly broken that this needed to happen? The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the Gallo report, the UK's Digital Economy Act, and in particular, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, will all a) seem completely warranted, and yet b) will make even moderates presently optimistic about Spotify making copyright enforcement hardening unncecessary, despair c) finally, the awful copyright policy we've seen pushed in 2010 (see above) will seem inadequate to all, and even harsher measures will be necessary. Throw the safe harbour / intermediary immunity out the window, allow wanton monitoring, consider making wilful downloading of infringing content illegal, bring back DRM, etc... Three strikes? Let's make it two.<p>And if mulve had never come along? people would just learn how to conduct their business online with greater discretion. Privacy, anonymity, encryption, closed communities, being selective about which computers you let your PC connect to - hardly a bad schooling?<p>If it ain't badly broke, don't fix it.

Yikes! This is quite illegal in the US.

They are taking paypal donations, which means the authorities can discover who they are and punish them.

Sounds like this may be just a client server of the same concept as BeeMP3, MP3hunting, etc. Someone is posting the music to various filehosting sites and the Mulve Client downloads them.

Unfortunately my first thought was of a Seinfeld episode where the woman's name is Delores...