The RIAA Armageddon has begun

There's a case like this going on in Australia, in which AFACT (a shady group funded by Hollywood) is suing an ISP for 'authorising' copyright infringement. AFACT lost the case and the appeal, and now they're thrashing out a further high court appeal. You know, instead of selling their stuff.

My property management company only allows Comcast in their buildings, not only for cable and internet, but for land line telephone, too, for Christ's sake.

Someone told me this is illegal, but idk. Whether it is illegal or not, it's fucked up.

Wouldn't encrypted browsing/file sharing get around this? I'm kinda dumb about this stuff, but you know... TOR or something?

or a VPN

or SoulSeek?

i'm told that an offsite seedbox is the answer.

if ISPs are trying to control certain protocols, they are going to lose that battle -- people will just mask them as "acceptable" protocols like http and gaming servers.

i don't you guys, i don't think these measures are intended to stop the internet savvy types that already have work-arounds in place, they're going after the millions of Americans who either don't know how, or won't bother, to do these things and just give up when googling "Taylor Swift megaupload" doesn't work any more.

Wow, this came out of nowhere. Metal Archives, also known as Encyclopedia Metallum, was shut down. I'm not sure what happened because, afaik, it was just a resource similar to wiki that listed metal bands and had album lists and reviews. Unless there was something going down in the forums, I never spent any time there. This is weird.

http://www.metal-archives.com/banner2ha.jpg

Nevermind me, I just realized the date today.

i was about to say...

there's a spot where you can click through on that page.

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-the-us-government-is-wrong-heres-why-120326/

CaptainCrawl went down today:

Dear music blogosphere,

due to legal reasons and intense server costs CaptainCrawl has to go offline - forever.
And - sadly - this is not an April the 1st joke.

In the past 4 years CaptainCrawl has been one of the most visited sites in the music
blogosphere, with more than 4,500,000 (searchable and tagged) music blogs posts,
16,000,000 unique visits and some 10,000s of high quality one-click audio previews
(tracks, mixes, talks). From April 1st 2012, this site will be offline.

The possibility to perform full text searches within the entire music blogosphere was always a problem for labels & lawyers. CC got serious complaints from major labels and major artists, so CC has to react on that. And we are talking about big names here. Like Coldplay.

Pretty good article about getting a copyright claim for video of a presidential speech. Gives some insight into how Youtube & Google use manipulation and how one-sided the whole thing is.

http://jotman.blogspot.com/2012/03/youtube-helped-ioda-steal-my-video-of.html

anymore updates on this coming armageddon? How many of you have, er, complied?

Am I totally paranoid for thinking that this sounds shady, particularly given the July deadline? It just seems like an awfully easy way to open your computer up to scanning/monitoring by the FBI.

How many of you have, er, complied?

well my experience has been that you can't find anything at all online anymore, no mediafire, no nothin'. so I guess I am "complying" but somewhat involuntarily. I'm sure there's some private trackers that still torrent, but I'm not motivated enough for that. End of an era, etc.

Film scores are still obtainable on private blogs. That fandom is hyper-dedicated (reupping 100s of MU links to MF, etc). Everything else, yeah, pretty gone.

Mediafire links on blog and such are still active but, yes, I've noticed the gradual extinction.

I got two notices on my mediafire account. One is for a track which uses samples from Lou Reed's "New York Telephone Conversation" alongside telephone sounds in a sort of music concrete sound collage. The other is a rip I made of Zacherle's "Monster Mash" LP. I've even gotten some notices on mediafire & youtube about song covers. My solution is that I'm going to just have to go through and permanently delete all covers. Let's hear it for the RIAA for protecting musicians. RIP the folk tradition.

the /rs/ board at 4ch@n is still pretty useful

huh that's wild re: samples from Lou Reed's "New York Telephone Conversation" ... wonder how long it is til i get notices about the various bootleggy type things i post on mediafire.

would be great if because of the whole RIAA thing, some artists who really don't care about live recordings circulating would give the go-ahead to archive.org or somesuch.

I had a remix of a Nicki Minaj track I did taken down by soundcloud. I put it up on mediafire and haven't had any problem, although that may be due to retitling it.

Some publicists send out tons of stuff very much meant to be freely shared, downloaded, embedded etc. etc.--will our new Overlords grok this?

I was pretty excited to hear Vladimir Nabokov reading "Lolita" on Doom & Gloom From the Tomb today but apparently the RIAA got to the file first. :-(

whoooa, crazy. how does that work, someone reported it? an out of print LP of vladimir nabokov? wacky.
well, here it is (mp3s still work): http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/245

Thanks! <3<3<3

that's the first time that's ever happened on my blog. scary.

My favorite blog ever, btw. It'll be a sad day if it ever goes down.

i got this email about a youtube video of a Prince tribute band.

Your video "Purple Veins - I Wanna Be Your Lover @ High Noon Saloon", may have content that is owned or licensed by UMPG Publishing, but it’s still available on YouTube! In some cases, it may be blocked, or ads may appear next to it.

This claim is not penalizing your account status. Visit your Copyright Notices page for more details on the policy applied to your video.

honestly i have no idea what this means.

oh, i guess this is what it means:

Your video is blocked in these locations:
United States

Eventually the RIAA is going to start taking down blogs that go into too much detail when describing music with the written word.

Eventually the RIAA is going to start taking down blogs that go into too much detail when describing music with the written word.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, April 23, 2012 1:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guess that means [insert blog name here] doesn't have to worry, am i right guys??!!!? hahahahahaha, ZING! #zing

lol

my only fear is that there's nothing the RIAA could do to marginalize itself enough to stop doing these things

I keep trying to think of an analogy for another industry being so ridiculous about going after people who use their content and the only real one I can think of is like book publishers suddenly deciding to shut down book review blogs that reproduce (credited) quotes fromt he book itself.

huh well i guess that is it for doom & gloom and mediafire. all links are gone. :(

:(

I'm so sorry tyler, that really sucks.

eh easy come easy go. who wants to start up a snail mail CDR bootleg club!?

Omigod. Fuck dude, pls know how many people appreciated the living hell out of what you did.

And I'm totally onboard for the snail mail thing!

Seconded.

I can draw some illos for it and help with liner notes. The ppl united cannot b defeated.

damn, tylerw. your blog was so good man. rip blogs.

i would 100% be in for snail mail thing, but i'm afraid i don't have much worthy of sharing

rip blogs indeed! thx for the kind words. fun while it lasted -- thought that it might be able to fly under the radar since most everything there is stuff you can't buy anywhere. but that's not how this stuff works, is it?
it'd be kinda fun to do some sort of bootleg club, don't know how it would work though!

fuck :(

RIP...tyler i really really loved your blog, so much awesome music over the past couple years, you really did a great job with it.

thanks, man. wonder if sites like dime a dozen will be shuttered too? is that a different thing?

the thing is, the people who use & enjoy music sharing blogs collectively have more money, and therefore theoretically more power, than the labels who fund the RIAA. if people were pretty intense about putting their money where their mouth is on this stuff it'd be a wildly diff. game imo