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:
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.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Copyright Violation
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Minha resposta a eles:
Dear Multiply Staff,
I've just received an e-mail informing some of my links were deleted because of copyright abuse. I am not writing to ask such files to be replaced, and I am not complaining you deleted them. I am writing merely to remark that I am not the one who have violated copyright, but you are. Although you are not held responsible for the content posted by the users, you provide the tool by which users can upload music, videos and many other - possibly copyrighted - material.
Furthermore, I would like to mention that the mp3 uploaded were backups of CDs I had actually bought, although I admit some were also downloaded - for free - from the internet. But regarding this, I believe you are aware that Apple iTunes is already selling DRM-unprotected mp3 content on their website, simply because it is a total waste of time to fight mp3 piracy.
In addition, I would like to share the fact that in Brazil, country where I reside, sharing "parts" of copyrighted material is not illegal, e.g., I can copy part of books, parts of cds and films, and not be in violation of anything.
Therefore, I would like to say I really enjoy using the Multiply website and intend to keep using it, unless you delete my account as you've threatened in the mail I received, and I firmly believe you will be wasting a lot of staff, time and money researching all the users that post supposedly copyrighted material.
Best regards,
Paula
I had my entire account deleted because of "possible" violations of terms of service. When the site first started up, I was careful about how much of my stuff I put on the site. Eventually, after over a year, I became pretty confident that Multiply was just one kick-ass service.
I was wrong. I lost over 800 writings, photographs, videos, etc. Nothing I can't get back, but the fact that they arbitrarily deleted my account and everything associated with it really pissed me off.
I shall be posting their company under my "Companies that Really Suck" blog soon.
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