16 March 2013
In the Court of the Star Chamber
I'm not going to rant too much this time, but just to keep track I've now gotten a copyright infringement notice about Damaged Tape's "Nude Witchcraft." Just as in the notice in January, this regards recordings that I created myself (no samples, borrowed images, or cover songs are present). Something strange is afoot.
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from mediafire? they probably use some software/bot, that should find copyright infringements but always seems to fail. there are probably no human beings involved ... strange new world.
in your boat as well, it's time to leave mediafire behind and settle elsewhere.
Yeah, Mediafire. I've already moved on, but it's just entertainingly infuriating and I think people should know what's going on.
It's so frustrating how many random obscure vinyl records that basically aren't anywhere else get taken down. Don't they have bigger fish to fry? Sometimes it seems like they just want to destroy history.
I don't want to sound like the conspiracy theorist that poops in the the punch bowl, but YES, something strange is Definitely afoot, and its not just file service automated webots giving people parking tickets for parking in their own garage. From new draconian copyright infringement regulations to the big brother tactics of Google: for example the big G has recently decided to suspend their RSS feed reader because it is an "underutilized service"... wtf? more under utilized than Google "Play" or Google "wallet"? Bull shit. Now that they managed to get aaron schwartz to kill himself (one of the inventors of RSS technology and a founder of the Creative Commons- a true internet martyr) they are taking a whack at the ability of people to freely use the internet. Google wants complete control of individual access to the internet. This is all on top of the totally insane data "scooping" that they are doing. If you don't know what it is look it up. Why aren't more people pissed off and freaked out by this. Here is an an example:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/03/12/google-pay-million-for-scooping-data-street-view-production/25ehHQyeAEkh6LaAIot5fM/story.html
It goes way beyond some obscure vinyl records from the 60's. This is the very fabric of the supposed american ideal of free speech as it overlaps with intellectual property laws, and I for one refuse to be intimidated by any of it.
Der Process has begun.
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