DatPiff was an online audio distribution platform that was launched in 2005. It is headquartered in Pennsylvania.[2] It specializes in hip-hop, rap, and urban music.[3] The site was founded in the spring of 2005 by Marcus Frasier.[4][5] It is owned by MediaLab AI Inc.[6] In April 2023, DatPiff announced that it was undergoing a revision, mainly as result of a major decline in the traffic the website was receiving, as well as copyright issues with many mixtapes on the website.[7]
Features
A key feature of DatPiff was that unregistered users are allowed to download any mixtape uploaded to the site that has been sponsored. Registered users were permitted a limited number of downloads of non-sponsored mixtapes per day. Premium paid users have an unlimited number of downloads of any mixtape. Mixtapes may be streamed by any user. Premium content may also be purchased.[8]
Users could register as either an artist or fan - the key difference being that artists upload their work to the site while fans may only listen to these works.