10/27/2022 0 Comments Clutch discography blogspot movies![]() ![]() That's why I can't get too weepy over the plight of the Pop Tarts Suck Toasted dude: Old Media losers like me - and our compatriots at the mega-blogs like Pitchfork - have always had to use fucking and risk our But when it comes to posting Mp3s with our blog posts, the good folks at play by the rules and either use a service like or get permission from a PR person. And, yes my hard drive would possibly suggest someone (who knows who all has access to my computer) has downloaded music illegally from time to time. I'm sure I've violated copyrights many, many times in my career, often inadvertently. I'm not some holier than thou RIAA goon either, obviously. Bottom line: You don't have the right to infringe on something unless you get busted, as so many music bloggers seem to think. Copyright holders are not burdened with the role of enforcing their rights on a case-by-case basis - the government and large corporations do it for them. Maybe it's how it should work, but it's not how it does work. Every blog I read has one of those little "If you request we take it down, we will" disclaimers but - and I do have a law degree folks, even though I write about music - that ain't how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act works. ![]() On the other hand, its obvious music bloggers have paid little attention to copyrights over the years and they have benefited from that. On one hand I am a music blogger (sorta, though for a villainous conglomerate of sorts, Village Voice Media) and I hate to see Our People suffer at the hands of a giant corporation who seems to be making good on an Onion story by destroying all information it can't index. Question: Does anyone really feel sorry for music bloggers who regularly mock copyright law with their posted Mp3s? due to copyright infringement or however they want to spin. Sorry for the mass nature of this little note, but as you may have noticed my blog - was murdered by the villainous conglomerate known as Goggle (Blogger) yesterday morning. You can read a note from the editor here, which contains the following passage: Sites like Pop Tarts Suck Toasted and I Rock Cleveland were hard hit, as the blog lost almost all it's content, some of which was backed up. No indication that the offending content is being used in an authorized Google has owned up to it on its Buzz blogger: "When we receive multiple DMCA complaints about the same blog, and have The search giant, who owns the popular Blogger service and domain has been destroying content from music bloggers deemed to be copyright infringes. ![]() Google's vast stretch of the blogosphere is going silent. ![]()
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