if you have a blog you'd be worried about being deleted without warning then don't have it hosted on a free server run by a massive global company? Just a thought.
I wonder what other products Google plans to delete without notice?
So Google have deleted these blogs over concerns they violate copyright law.
This would be the same Google who, with their Google Books Library Project, have for the past few years have been scanning in-copyright printed material on a massive scale without obtaining permission to do so from the copyright holders? A project that the Authors Guild of America and the Association of American Publishers describe in their lawsuit as 'massive copyright infringement'?
Google is starting to worry me
it is amazing how many posts get taken down when they are fully legal. I have had tracks sent by record labels, agents and even the artists themselves that have been deleted with no warning.
I recently had a very heavy handed note from my ISP threatening to end my account for downloading a film. Which I hadn't downloaded. When challenged to provide evidence, all the ISP could do was mutter about 'being informed' that I'd done this. No further info on how had 'informed' or how I could go about challenging the information or how I could clear my name in the ISP's eyes. So. It seems people are getting dire threats and even blogs taken down on no evidence at all, never mind evidence that would stand up in a court (where they'd be prosecuted in the real world)
What I find really objectionable about the whole music industry rant about illegal downloads is the whole notion that musicians deserve to get paid over and over and over again for recording a 3 minute song in the first place.
Yes, I accept that artists deserve to make money from their talent in the same way that we all use our skills and abilities to earn a living, but why should anyone have a 50 or 60 year right to go on milking it. Copyright laws need huge revision...
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