Thursday, February 5, 2009

I'm officially a blogger now....

Check out the email I received from Blogger below (I'm so siced!)...

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Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.

The notice that we received from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the record companies it represents, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post the notice online at the link provided.

The IFPI is a trade association that represents over 1,400 major and independent record companies in the US and internationally who create, manufacture and distribute sound recordings (the "IFPI Represented Companies").

The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. We are in the process of removing from our servers the links that allegedly infringe upon the copyrights of others. If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. See http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=254 for more information about the DMCA, and see http://www.google.com/dmca.html for the process that Blogger requires in order to make a DMCA complaint.

Blogger can reinstate these posts upon receipt of a counter notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and 3) of the DMCA. For more information about the requirements of a counter notification and a link to a sample counter notification, see http://www.google.com/dmca.html#counter.

Please note that repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial action taken against your Blogger account. If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel. If you have any other questions about this notification, please let us know.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

Affected URLs:

http://mcarroll4716.blogspot.com/2009/01/hip-hop-beef-update-officer-ross-vs-50.html
http://mcarroll4716.blogspot.com/2009/01/hip-hop-beef-update-officer-ross-vs-50.html
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The link mentioned above has been removed from my blog (I wonder how much will get removed if they do a retroactive search through this bad boy). I assume this removal is because I posted Rick Ross's song, "Mafia Music" (where he takes a shot at 50 Cent and laces the beat quite nicely) or Magnificent without (gulp) Rick's permission (lol). Make that Def Jam's permission. Oh well! This must suck for Rick Ross's promotional effort for his upcoming album, Deeper Than Rap. It's people like moi that put this guys music on the InterWeb and help him with some e-promotion and lookie here, the good ole powers-that-be snatch it right down off the kid's blog. It sure is hard out here for a correctional officer.

Or maybe it's the video I posted of 50's rebuttal Officer Ricky. Cuuuurtis has some bread so I could see him using his millions to get them to shut down one of my posts. I'm just THAT important. Sheesh!

Back to my original theory/thought...Who would have thought I'd earn my blogger stripes off of a friggin' RICK ROSS song (of all people/artists)?!?!?!

And you know I'm going to be checking http://www.chillingeffects.org/ regularly until I see something about this blog up there.

Congratulations are in order...

"I'd like to propose a toast! I said TOAST MOTHERF&CK*RS!" - Kanye West

2 comments:

M.C. said...

This bothers me for some reason. The aforementioned posts that you refer to in your blog, were first posted elsewhere, like YouTube, etc. So, why would they then contact Blogger, and then Blogger contact you? Why not go straight to the actual source that infringed, not the third, or fourth party? This is silly, and yet another reason why the music industry is losing in this intellectual property war they've begun online.

You could very well take down the vids/songs and they would still be up on another site. Personally if the industry wasn't so greedy, people wouldn't have to download, etc. I digress, but congrats on earning your stripes, even if it is off of some malarchy from the industry.

Anonymous said...

I agree with you that the content was posted elsewhere first and not by moi.

Congrats on being the first person to use malarchy in a comment.