Quite your complaining. Copyrighted material means just that, IT’S COPYRIGHTED!!! Just because you have a blog does entitle you to use this material however you want. People think just because they have internet access, you can do whatever you want. We prove over & over again that we can’t govern ourselves and what it’s going to lead to is oversight of internet. Do us all of favor, stop trying to bend whatever rules just because you think you can. In fact, can we do away with blogging altogether? This world’s already full of a@#holes, we don’t need to hear their opinions.

“This world’s already full of a@#holes, we don’t need to hear their opinions.”

The irony is delicious.

Um, RETEP, it sounds like you did not read the entire article. He claims that his WAS LEGAL. Aka, it probably contained less than 10% of a copyrighted piece, which would qualify as FAIR USE. Now I’m not saying that what he had posted actually WAS legal. I’m just saying that before you jump to conclusions you should consider what is said in the article, because it sounds as though you may have just skimmed it, and not actually taken in all the information that is presented.

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Hello People,

I Just joined up and am trying edit my profile but i can’t see the button!! probably staring me in the face lol

thanks guys

So Retep…is that your opinion?

I left Blogger after a four month battle with them over their deleting reviews from my 100% legal blog (I obtain permission for every mp3 I post) Muruch due to erroneous claims from IFPI. I had clear authorization from the record labels (who held the copyright of the recordings).

From what I understand, IFPI was acting on behalf of EMI, who use a bot to find any songs under their umbrella – which includes legal mp3s from American indie labels who just happen to use EMI as their UK distributor.

I was one of the few who successfully filed a counter claim and had my posts reinstated. The process was frightening considering the threat of legal action even though I’d followed copyright laws. Not to mention that the prolonged battle (and subsequent transfer to a new domain) drastically reduced my traffic, which has resulted in a great loss of ad revenue. Thanks to Blogger, my almost decade old music site has been reset in rankings as if it were a new blog. And despite their acknowledgement that the claims against me were unjustified, Blogger continues to censor blogs without verifying the claims they receive.

I had my post taken down by google for posting a free song. Yup, not kidding. I posted that song that was freely given by the Decemberists some time ago, and they took that down. Morons.

“Blog” is such a lame ass shitty term anyway. Retep is right.

I’d like to know more about what rights music copyright holders retain and I’d like to see a better accounting of what was removed. If I’m supposed to be alarmed, then someone failed because this doesn’t come close. Slippery slopes and coming for the other guy, I know, but this is less than serious.

Blogger doesn’t even bother to check the claim out it just removes the post giving carte blanche to malicious claims of copyright abuse. Guilty until proven innocent what a way to run a justice system. Ever read Kafka’s ‘The Trial’? Well Josef K would feel right at home in the first decade of the 21st century!

The Devil Has The Best Tuna blog fully understands the need to protect copyright, artists deserve the right to make a living from their labours and therefore any track that is posted on the blog is either posted with the permission of the artist, their management or an agent acting on their behalf or is directly linked from the artist or labels site and is therefore already freely available. The Devil’s mission in life is to promote new artists not to steal from them. But this doesn’t stop blogger from removing posts.

The right of appeal muruch refers to is long winded and quite frankly a bit of a pain in the backside for most bloggers for whom this is a hobby, and contacting blogger on anything is more difficult than turning yourself inside out in a bath of vinegar. Something tells me they don’t want too many people appealing.

Maybe it’s time for bloggers of the world to unite and takeover!

nice, really nice!

MmaI8K

I would stick to buying CD’s