Did Muxtape Lie About RIAA Pressure?

Sam Gustin has discovered that Muxtape doesn't believe it lied when the the company said that "no artists or labels have complained" about its music hosting and sharing service.

That statement, according a source close to Muxtape, is factually true. Why? Because the RIAA isn't an artist or a label.

If this strikes you as semantic gymnastics of a Clintonian order, you're are not alone.

When Muxtape shut down yesterday, the Web music darling insisted on its blog that "No artists or labels have complained."

Yet the RIAA, the music industry group which represents the major record labels, told me today that over the last several months it has "communicated our legal concerns with the site and repeatedly tried to work with them to have illegal content taken down."

Both sides, it seems, are singing their own tune.

Muxtape founder Jason Oullette hasn't returned emails for comment. But a source close to Muxtape says the reason for the discrepancy lies in the wording of the statement: "No artists or labels have complained." (Emphasis from source.)

The Recording Industry Association of America, of course, is not a label.

So Muxtape's statement appears to be accurate. If you're Bill Clinton.