tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post4465207518909931688..comments2024-03-24T02:32:42.657-05:00Comments on music ruined my life: And the Gutting of Mediafire Begins...jeffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-43541523661572128992012-04-11T06:08:49.623-05:002012-04-11T06:08:49.623-05:00In my two years of doing my blog the only thing to...In my two years of doing my blog the only thing to ever be taken down was a collection of Social Distortion's out of print b-sides and unreleased material. I think they are a no-go. 90% of what I post isn't commercially available and the other 10% are random compilation appearances. If my account gets shut down I'm fucked.Fashion Munxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299870097859379343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-27131609742085348662012-03-12T22:57:21.471-05:002012-03-12T22:57:21.471-05:00holy hell!
What on your blog could've caught t...holy hell!<br />What on your blog could've caught their attention?<br />You're up-loading eighties punk demo cassettes!<br />(And doing a fantastic bloody job it, I might add).<br />The clock is ticking...jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-53333717297912105212012-03-12T22:43:17.647-05:002012-03-12T22:43:17.647-05:00they got me saturday deleted every thing ive uploa...they got me saturday deleted every thing ive upload in the past 4 years went over to rapidshare but i'm sure they will be doing the same as mediafire i guess us blogger's days are numbered mediafire are a bunch of cunts!SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809844548342763537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-7716011287108356072012-03-12T01:36:13.542-05:002012-03-12T01:36:13.542-05:00It is a shame labels overlook the possibility of c...It is a shame labels overlook the possibility of coopting with the rightful owners of bootlegged material in getting it a proper public release. The system will always work however to maintain the status quo or at worst gain more for themselves at the expense of the artists they supposedly represent. These are the good ol' boys of the good ol' days who have yet to realize their world is crumbling much faster than anyone is able to put the pieces back together. They should get on board with reality & The Now & get their heads out of the sand & their asses.stupiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11079975275847428499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-4258581763925524172012-03-11T16:45:16.988-05:002012-03-11T16:45:16.988-05:00I'd like to know who is behind this pointlessn...I'd like to know who is behind this pointlessness...jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-92111710538041935782012-03-11T16:25:17.509-05:002012-03-11T16:25:17.509-05:00I'm ready to migrate platforms but I love the ...I'm ready to migrate platforms but I love the openness of the blog...jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-4917685299633532792012-03-11T16:24:13.880-05:002012-03-11T16:24:13.880-05:00Yeah short-sightedness of the music industry is ma...Yeah short-sightedness of the music industry is maddening!jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-890613848002370892012-03-11T16:19:23.641-05:002012-03-11T16:19:23.641-05:00Thanks Spavid, I think the conviction that what we...Thanks Spavid, I think the conviction that what we're doing is good for music and musicians is what keeps us going.jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-20369584921382170902012-03-11T16:18:05.361-05:002012-03-11T16:18:05.361-05:00Mediafire itself is working for me - but the new d...Mediafire itself is working for me - but the new deletion-happy approach is worrisome.jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-47179888575233109422012-03-11T16:17:21.549-05:002012-03-11T16:17:21.549-05:00"They can't put the digital genie back in..."They can't put the digital genie back in the bottle."<br />Damn, you're all putting it more succinctly than I did!jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-19911668458036322152012-03-11T16:16:35.960-05:002012-03-11T16:16:35.960-05:00"I won't give up if you don't."
..."I won't give up if you don't."<br />Deal!!!jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-59030648420795362592012-03-11T16:16:07.325-05:002012-03-11T16:16:07.325-05:00thanks for the good words, we'll carry on for ...thanks for the good words, we'll carry on for as long as we can.jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-62767287992027093662012-03-11T16:15:41.945-05:002012-03-11T16:15:41.945-05:00Overkill!Overkill!jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-80875064375441823852012-03-11T16:15:27.245-05:002012-03-11T16:15:27.245-05:00"All of us bloggers need to stick together &q..."All of us bloggers need to stick together "<br />Amen!jeffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05015674620176399988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-2502126924663609942012-03-10T07:39:14.720-06:002012-03-10T07:39:14.720-06:00In the same sense that we're all potential sho...In the same sense that we're all potential shoplifters and must suffer security cameras, security tags and invasive policies, business will not take the time to examine individual posts.<br /><br />All posts will be considered potentially guilty and therefore will be removed.<br /><br />You have composed a perfectly reasoned and rational argument--which has no place in the business world.La Piazza Ganciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09541428960602820693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-34273366390200124012012-02-29T01:19:24.574-06:002012-02-29T01:19:24.574-06:00They will always find a way to make our life diffi...They will always find a way to make our life difficult, that was in the 80's so and is still the same. They just cannot understand that we exist and swim against them. This our way to express ourselves and we much to dangerous, we're the truth and we are real. The fight continues and we never give up!!!! Cheers!!!WildDevilManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957678361127902657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-41989001106319883252012-02-28T17:10:49.341-06:002012-02-28T17:10:49.341-06:00For those of you who think it's just the US go...For those of you who think it's just the US government and not the music business closing down sites, your naivety is showing. Who do you think runs the US government? Big business has been for a long time and that includes the music business. Lobbyists with big money have no problem finding willing politicians to take their cash and introduce their handwritten bills to Congress. The entertainment industry also hires trackers and informants to browse blog sites and uploading businesses, as well as ISPs (bandwidth usage) to also curb usage. Most bloggers are playing by the rules, but when a few bad ones upload the newest CD or movie, we get an overreaction like the seizure of megaupload without due process.<br /><br />Let's not miss the big picture, here. Apparently, the US Government feels it owns and may legally police the internet. Someone tell me how and why this is still being allowed? Congressmen were yelling from their seats for internet freedom when it happened during Arab Spring and social networking, but look at them now. Pathetic. Thy should all be ashamed of themselves. <br /><br />By the way, what's going to happen to the 99% of legal files that were being stored or in the process of being transferred on megaupload, filesonic, etc. Nobody seems to be addressing that issue. The internet and storage transfer has far wider applications than just music and movies. This is one giant step backwards. Thank you, Big Brother.Oxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17508091965277602173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-82955012909823572552012-02-26T16:42:01.930-06:002012-02-26T16:42:01.930-06:00I'm sure the record labels aren't actually...I'm sure the record labels aren't actually reading the blogs and making decisions based upon whether or not it's "educational" or if the band sold a lot of records or not ("hmmm, we'll let this MC5 record go... no Huey Lewis and The News, though"). I'm sure it's just property to them -- if they find a name through a Google search or something, they'll want it taken down, and it doesn't matter how well-written or nice-seeming the blog itself is. I'm sure they never even look at the blog.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-20012826067890813122012-02-26T14:45:29.330-06:002012-02-26T14:45:29.330-06:00Blaming the music business is silly when it's ...Blaming the music business is silly when it's US politics that lead to the raid and arrest of Kim Dotcom of Megaupload. It was inevitable that other file sharing acts were going to take down files.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17045826661786741441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-33452951887216634662012-02-26T12:57:40.838-06:002012-02-26T12:57:40.838-06:00I would suggest for the time being to encrypt and ...I would suggest for the time being to encrypt and password the rar files, and give them shorthand or code names. That way they can't open it to see the names of the files and can't tell what it is from the main file name.knownotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17717394562465224079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-36438266085981792322012-02-26T09:42:34.338-06:002012-02-26T09:42:34.338-06:00Got one myself recently.....over a goddamn MC5 alb...Got one myself recently.....over a goddamn MC5 album? THE MC5? my post, I'm certain, prevented the goddamn MC5 from selling literally thousands of records? The goddamn MC5 didn't sell thousands of records when they were active, let alone now.....who the hell is being harmed by educating some damn ignorant kid about their legacy? <br /><br />If you are as old as me, perhaps you remember that CASSETTE TAPING (Cassette TAPING!) was going to "destroy" the music business....this is not a joke, although it may sound like one to the under-40's.....one more time: NOTHING will destroy the music business quicker than SHITTY MUSIC. Talk about whining over a property line while your fucking houe is on fire.....Bigscott62https://www.blogger.com/profile/09271092037053784093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-42776948605382761082012-02-26T09:34:31.782-06:002012-02-26T09:34:31.782-06:00I think veganboyjosh is right, they're definit...I think veganboyjosh is right, they're definitely "shotgunning it" as far as what gets taken down -- sometimes, I don't even think it's the actual label that's behind it, because a lot of the takedowns are totally random, as if they're being supervised by a third party that doesn't really know what they're doing.Davehttp://onebaseonanoverthrow.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-78164867670729271112012-02-26T05:16:23.068-06:002012-02-26T05:16:23.068-06:00If the "music business" wants to stop pe...If the "music business" wants to stop people posting currently available albums they should have thought about that when they started the ridiculous practice of releasing new albums three or four times, with each successive release having different track lists. Nobody wanted to buy an album that many times to get all the different tracks... it was just short sighted greed. "See the public? They'll swallow any old shit".<br />As for long deleted/unavailable music - stopping access to that is a form of censorship that I for one think is absolutely typical of the current capitalist/fascist regimes that hold sway in the western world. Fuck 'em all...styreneboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915144884676118155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-84349394603034179312012-02-26T00:56:19.945-06:002012-02-26T00:56:19.945-06:00i don't think it's about individual artist...i don't think it's about individual artists flexing their muscle over obscure commercially-unavailable recordings. <br /><br />it's about labels and RIAA's being able to paint piracy with a broad brush, and it's easier for them to err on the side of "oops, that shouldn't have been taken down, we cast the net too broadly" than "we're going to look at every infringing post one at a time." <br /><br />i think it will continue, but if blogs+mediafire get shut down, some new medium will come around. just think, 20 years ago, it was CD-R's being traded or sold in swap meets. 10 years before that, cassettes being traded. <br /><br />technology is making the sharing of information/files easier and faster. SOMEONE out there is already doing whatever the next method will be, but most of us just don't know about it. i think we're all getting networked fast enough that word will spread through the blog scene fast enough when it becomes time to migrate.veganboyjoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09609779337989003850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191686244361274747.post-27980946845829364492012-02-25T21:26:14.717-06:002012-02-25T21:26:14.717-06:00Damn, this is getting frustrating, not to mention ...Damn, this is getting frustrating, not to mention a tad scary for someone like myself who is hosting almost a thousand recordings that are commercially unavailable. Are bloggers really making that much of a dent? Better individual files be purged than entire blogs outright, but this is becoming more and more of a battle. Keep fighting the good fight, and we'll do the same.spavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00986537771229635843noreply@blogger.com