Google to deleted bloggers …
p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- “If you are going to blog on a controversial topic, especially one big business won’t like, you need to set it up on your own web site”, said Monkey D. Luffy in a p2pnet Reader’s Write, yesterday.
“How long do you think p2pnet would last on google’s blog host before it was taken down?”
Monkey’s observation comes in the p2pnet story relating how advertising giant Google has been deleting blogs on its Blogger product, ie >>>
From: support@blogger.com [support@blogger.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:49 PM
To: irockcleveland@gmail.com
Cc: blogger-dmca-notification@google.com
Subject: Blogger Blog takedown notification
We’d like to inform you that we’ve received another complaint regarding your blog (http://irockcleveland.blogspot.com/). Upon review of your account, we’ve noted that your blog has repeatedly violated Blogger’s Terms of Service (http://www.blogger.com/terms.g). Given that we’ve provided you with several warnings of these violations and advised you of our policy towards repeat infringers, we’ve been forced to remove your blog.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Is the totally insincere “thank you for your understanding” and salutation at the end of supposed to make everything better?
Blogger and Google had “finally struck down upon music blogs”, said We All Want Someone To Shout For, continuing >>>
So far they deleted my friend Chris’s blog It’s A Rap, along with PopTartsSuckToasted, and Livingears (newly started at livingears.com), and irockcleveland . When google gets complaints from the big labels and legal companies, they always take action. It started with deleting posts that got complaints, and that is why I moved to wordpress in the winter of 2008. I had a feeling that soon it wouldn’t just be posts, but it would gradually move on to the entire blogs themselves.
Without warning, they just deleted all of these bloggers hard work. These guys have put hours of their lives into their site. This is complete bullshit. How the hell can google get away with just coming in and deleteing someone’s website? Ok they posted a track that made someone upset. Email them, and ask them to take it down. That would be the end of it. Was it really neccesary to delete their site? God damn!!!!
This is really upsetting to me, so I can only imagine how those guys feels. They are going to have to rebuild, and start from scratch now. For all you other blogspot bloggers out there, you better get moved over to wordpress, or at least back up your database right now!
‘Shoot first, ask questions after’
When we posted our story Gogle had been completely ignoring requests for details.
It does that, as thousands of site owners who had their AdSense accounts cancelled without warning and with explanation, know.
But when the mainstream media get into it, the story changes and Google speaks.
“Thank you for your understanding”, say Blogger/Gargle.
In a complaint posted to Google Support, I Rock Cleveland Bill Lipold lists four cases in the past year when he’d “received copyright violation notices for songs he was legally entitled to post”, says paidContent, going on >>>
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. As a publicist for BLK JKS’ label, Secretly Canadian, told Lipold: “Apparently DMCA operate on their own set of odd rules, as they even requested that the BLK JKS’ official blog remove the song.” It’s not clear who “DMCA” is in this case, as the act does not defend itself.
“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.
But Gargoyle’s first official response came only late yesterday, says the story.
“When we receive multiple DMCA complaints about the same blog, and have no indication that the offending content is being used in an authorised manner, we will remove the blog,” it has product manager Rick Klau stating. “[If] this is the result of miscommunication by staff at the record label, or confusion over which MP3s are ‘official’ … it is imperative that you file a DMCA counter-claim so we know you have the right to the music in question.”
Um, er, right. But as paidContent points out, “The trouble with filing a formal, legal DMCA counter-claim is, that most bloggers don’t know how. What’s more, many of Blogger’s DMCA notices allegedly omit the name of the offending song. Bloggers aren’t even sure what they are denying.”
‘New policy vis-a-vis music bloggers’
“The two largest Blogspot-hosted music blogs, Gorilla vs Bear and My Old Kentucky Home, show no sign of being affected, although they will still find these developments alarming”, says the story, quoting Gorilla vs Bear’s Chris Cantalini as saying, “I don’t post anything that’s not approved, and obviously nothing on major labels. But apparently that doesn’t matter in some of these cases.”
“In a press release last year, Google seemed to recognise this distinction, announcing a new policy vis-a-vis music bloggers,” it says, adding:
“From now on, it wrote, DMCA notices would not result in the instant deletion of offending blogs. Instead, individual posts would be temporarily removed, with a prominent notice to help bloggers respond to the allegations.
” ‘Music bloggers are a large segment of our users – and we know that for those who’ve received one or more DMCA complaints in the past, this may have been a frustrating experience,’ Klau said in August. Almost six months later, the experience doesn’t appear to have become any less frustrating.”
Stay tuned.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – Google deletes entire blogs, February 11, 2010
cancelled without warning – More Google AdSense crap, October 17, 2008
paidContent -Without Warning, Google Closes Music Blogs; Years Of Archives Gone, February 11, 2010
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