Mixtape Website Spinrilla Ordered To Shut Down, Pay $50M USD to Labels

A decade after its creation, Spinrilla, the music discovery website for independent artists, will cease operations immediately.A federal judge in Georgia ordered that founder Jeffrey Copeland take down the site and pay $50 million USD to a group of record labels - among them, including Sony, Warner, Roc-A-Fella and Atlantic - for copyright infringement.The ruling brings to a close a six-year-old lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, alleging that Spinrilla was host to c...