Musicblogocide 2010

[kindelling]

Google shuts down music blogs without warning

Bloggers told they have violated terms without further explanation, as years of archives are wiped off the internet

In what critics are calling "musicblogocide 2010", Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google's

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Mod note

[rex_dart]

LJ cut, please?

Re: Mod note

[kindelling]

Done!

[evanescible]

what bullshit.

[anjak_j]

Blogger is shit anyway - people seem to be jumping ship in droves.

And Google fail with their heavy-handed manner in dealing with this, and having no balls when it comes to the music industry.

[mercurychaos]

WordPress, here I come!

[terraverde]

What's the difference? I use .com and haven't had any problems with it!

[mercurychaos]

I don't have my own server space.

[castalianspring]

Bill Lipold, the owner of I Rock Cleveland, cited four cases in the past year when he had received copyright violation notices for songs he was legally entitled to post. Tracks by Jay Reatard, Nadja, BLK JKS and Spindrift all attracted complaints under the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, even when the respective MP3s were official promo tracks.

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"I assure you that everything I've posted for, let's say, the past two years, has either been provided by a promotional company, came directly from the record label, or came directly from the artist," Lipold wrote to Google.

Did you read the article?

[castalianspring]

Yes, they have to act, but they can reverse the TOSing if a counter-claim is successfully filed, and as the article states, this is a huge PITA to do. Fair Use shouldn't be so difficult to uphold.