This is really, really bad news for the entire mashup community. [Party Ben](http://www.partyben.com/), maker of the Sixx Mixx and other fantastical mashups, has gotten a DMCA notice from Yahoo:
SIXX MIXX 94 – 07/15/05
EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M INSANE EDITION
Currently unavailable…
From: Yahoo Webhosting
RE: sixxmixx.com The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (“IFPI”) and/or IFPI’s agent has notified Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo!”) that you have posted copyrighted material in connection with your Yahoo!® Web hosting service, which is proprietary to IFPI. IFPI and/or IFPI’s agent has further notified Yahoo! that you are not authorized to use the material in question at: http://www.sixxmixx.com/SIXXMIXX94-071505.mp3 Yahoo! respects the rights of both its users and the owners and rights holders of intellectual property. Accordingly, and in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and/or other applicable federal law(s), Yahoo! expeditiously removed or disabled access to the copyrighted material in question. Through your use of Yahoo!® Web hosting services you agree to abide by the Yahoo! Terms of Service as well as any additional Terms of Service applicable to you. The current Yahoo! Terms of Service may be reviewed at: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms. Pursuant to Section 6 of the Terms of Service, Member Conduct, you agree not to use Yahoo!® services to “upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights . . . of any party.”
Ben writes:
> I’ve got too many enemies… It was bound to happen someday. I have just received a “Notice of Infringement” letter from Yahoo, my webhosting company, regarding, weirdly, only Sixx Mixx 94, which was posted on the Sixx Mixx page. They have removed the “offending file.” (If you ask me, the mixing in #92 was more offensive, wocka wocka wocka).
> Unfortunately, it’s hard to imagine that the rest of this little website and its myriad of other mp3s will be ignored. Yahoo has notified me that “reciept of another notice of infringement… may result in the termination of all Yahoo! services and your Yahoo ID.” So, this may be goodbye, interschnitzel friends: if you come by partyben.com and you get a “not found,” you’ll know why. If that happens, I promise I’ll try and find a way to come back.
See also [this discussion thread on GYBO](http://www.gybo-v3.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6831), which lots of posts from Ben as well as dj BC and others in the community.