Google Cracking Down on Music Blogs?

[bispo]

Imagine having a music blog where new songs are shared with a plethora of visitors to your site. Now imagine going to view those same pages where the song was, and noticing the entire page is gone. This is the accusation many bloggers in Los Angeles are throwing around. All the bloggers happen to use Google’s Blogger platform.

According to LA Weekly

Comments

[crimps4]

Sad, music blogs are amazing and have introduced me to a ton of new music =(

[bispo]

http://extramusicnew.blogspot.com/ here's a great one :)

[crimps4]

Nice! Thanks! Almost all of the ones I know are cover-song blogs, so I don't really have any good recommendations except for Stereogum.

[bispo]

http://extramusicnew.blogspot.com/2009/01/nasa-spirit-of-apollo-2009.html

this one in particular click on the image for the download

[queer_theory]

This has been happening for months with a few of the blogs that I read regularly. They've been deleting posts like crazy... and many (in fact, most of the ones I've seen) are posts in which the blogger isn't violating any terms of service, as they had permission from all of the proper people to post the music in question.

[horcrionebay]

Aw :(
Let's hope they steer clear of LJ for a while.

[layweed]

They really can't do anything as far as LJ is concerned. I guess they could remove the search result links but they can't do anything to the sites themselves. The only reason they can pull the plug on Blogger is because they own it.

[potatoboat]

I get so much music from those blogs.

[surrenderface]

I love music blogs...this pisses me off because a lot of it comes from the label or the artist. GO DIE GOOGLE.