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10.Feb.2010 The Great Copyright Fight of 2010

Filed In: Announcements, News By Bill Lipold

Have you seen the news?

I Rock Cleveland is Shut Down by Google’s Blogger Service

Google Shuts Down MP3 Blogs

Google Resumes Music Blog Breakdowns…

Google’s Latest Music Blog Kerfuffle Highlights Problems with the DMCA

I Rock Cleveland’s old home at http://irockclveland.blogpsot.com was unceremoniously disabled around noon on Tuesday after I unintentionally got myself caught square in the middle of the great copyright fight of 2010.  In the way these things always seem to go, I was no match for Google and the IFPI.  Thankfully, I had a recent backup and was able to port all of my old content over to this new home at http://blog.irockcleveland.com.

Needless to say, I didn’t have time to properly plan to move to a new server.  So, you may notice things that are missing on the new site which used to be on the old site, or things on the new site which don’t work quite so well as you’d like them to work.  Patience, grasshopper.  All of this will be taken care of in due time.

In the meantime, why don’t you update your links and your bookmarks to the new url http://blog.irockcleveland.com?  Next, if you’re a feed subscriber make sure you’re using this one.  It’s a franken-feed of the old I Rock Cleveland and the new one.  Lastly, tell your friends and their friends to do the same.  As someone famous once said, “I fought the law and the law won,” “Hey, hey, my, my.  Rock and Roll will never die.”

I Rock Cleveland

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  • Andrew says:
    February 11, 2010 at 8:40 am

    Just saw this news this morning. I was furious upon reading you got shut down, but I’m glad to see you found a new home. We use WordPress to power the website I run, and I think you’ll be happy with it.

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  • Tyler says:
    February 11, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Welcome back!

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  • Dan says:
    February 11, 2010 at 11:35 am

    Sorry for the Google mess — glad you’ve set up your own shop. good luck.

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  • tangleofwires says:
    February 11, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    Just saw the story on Paste. Shocked at Google’s move; glad as hell you’re back up.

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  • BenD says:
    February 11, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    Glad you’re back.

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  • Trustar says:
    February 14, 2010 at 1:58 am

    Bill

    Don’t let the bastards get you down.

    Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World

    Trustar

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  • Ranger Six says:
    February 17, 2010 at 10:55 am

    Just so’s you know, I personally think it’s in your best interests to fight the takedown – if not to get your old blog back, then as a matter of principle.

    Especially considering that the IFPI doesn’t feel it has to abide by United States law.

    As a wiser man that I once said, “Sometimes the smallest, strongest voice carries the greatest solution.”

    But whatever path you choose, I wish you luck and safe travels.

    Entil’zha veni,

    Ranger Six

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  • Jack Yan says:
    February 23, 2010 at 4:43 am

    Bill, I am so pleased you had a recent back-up and were able to re-create I Rock Cleveland. The silver lining, I suppose, is that your blog managed to get a good boost in traffic and that is a very nice start to your new domain.

    As you might know, I commented on your thread on the Google “support” forum, probably one of the least helpful ones I have come across. McAfee’s was very bad some years ago, but not this bad. We had a six-month fight, which finally ended when Rick Klau, the Blogger product manager, intervened. In that period, every record of the blog I had helped on had been removed, even out of Google’s cache. As with your case, some media picked up on the matter:

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091228/1803277526.shtml

    While the majority of blogs Google takes down feature pirated content, occasionally legit ones get caught up in that. It was no excuse for your thread to be ignored, however, given that you had plenty of evidence. But as you’ll read in the above link, evidence is ignored on the forums—and, after the article above was written, even deleted.

    I think Rick Klau is a decent bloke, but he has some questionable people doing things in Blogger’s name.

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    • Bill Lipold says:
      February 23, 2010 at 8:16 am

      To his credit, Rick did reach out to me this past weekend and offered to set aside some time to talk about what happened. It hasn’t happened yet, but still might…

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      • Jack Yan says:
        February 24, 2010 at 2:33 am

        If you choose to, then I hope you both do manage to talk. In restoring our blog, and then helping us overcome a later glitch on Blogger’s end, I found him as good as his word. He even gave me some advice on removing a blog from Blogger. Pity many of the others aren’t as genuine as Rick.

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