Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Copyright Violation



Well dear friends and online buddies!
Seems that the Kingdom of Fear has finally reached Multiply. For those who believed this was a free enterprise where a network could share common interests, beware!

Obviously the demon greedheads of old-fashioned record labels and assholes like Lars Ulrich who can't think of anything but money have found this website and this is the e-mail I received from the Multiply staff:

"Received: by 10.100.3.9 with SMTP id 9cs44867anc; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.95.11 with SMTP id s11mr6551342agb.1179251345208; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from px542-fe.Multiply.com (ws555-fe.multiply.com [66.246.179.55])

Subject: Copyright Violation

One or more of your content items was found to be in violation of Multiply's terms of service regarding copyrights. We have deleted the item(s). We suggest you do the same with any other items that may contain copyrighted material. We reserve the right to cancel your account if we discover another violation. Here is the list of items which contained copyrighted material:

http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/181
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/198
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/703
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/22
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/399
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/469

Thank you for understanding.

Multiply customer service"

Therefore, all the CDs which I actually BOUGHT, and all the mp3s which I downloaded as free as any other individual who can browse and find anything within a click's range might now be outta here, and it was not my choice.

Steve Jobs has already signed deals for Apple's iTunes to sell unprotected mp3, and we can find mp3s everywhere on the web. However, this seems not to be the case here. So, if one day you click http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/ and don't find me, well, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.