Overzealous Enforcement Means Even Legit Music Blogs Deleted 240
AnotherUsername writes "Recently, many [Google-hosted] music blogs were deleted for hosting mp3s of songs by various artists. The problem? The music blogs in question had been given permission to host the songs, and often, the older links to mp3s were often broken intentionally by the bloggers in order to save bandwidth. From the article: 'You're reading this right: Five years of Lipold's labor of love was deleted, in part, because he posted a track with full permission of a label, and the track apparently wasn't even online by the time the IFPI filed its complaint.'"
New tagline/category needed (Score:3, Funny)
... as apparently, "your rights online" do not really exist. What about "No rights online"? "Duties online"?
Well, I'm pretty sure we can come up with something that describes the situation a bit better.
Re:Fake it until you make it? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This will keep happening... (Score:4, Funny)
Only if the weapon is a xylophone.
Re:New tagline/category needed (Score:3, Funny)
"His blog was hosted in the Cloud! A super place where data is impervious to destruction and can never be lost!"
Excellent post!
Guess what, kiddies? You don't OWN the Cloud so you don't get to say shit about how it runs. What you host on the Cloud isn't a matter of your imaginary "rights" outside the TOS you ignore when you put your content on teh shiny intarweb.
Suck on that when you consider surrendering your data to people who Don't Need You.
Re:New tagline/category needed (Score:4, Funny)
Tiger Woods tried that... (Score:4, Funny)
Make fucking backups. Test fucking backups regularly.
Tiger Woods tried that...and lost half his fortune
Re:This will keep happening... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:This will keep happening... (Score:1, Funny)
Or run on a hosting provider that doesn't respect the DMCA - like one outside the country.
IFPI: We see you are publishing these evil MP3s. Cease and desist at once. The power of DMCA compels you!
somehost.tw: Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries!
IFPI: Now look here. We have lawyers and we will...
somehost.tw: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper.