I've started using a new upstart filehoster. over 2000 files! They said I was infringing on the copyrights of a porn company(?) when most everything on my blog is either oop or so rare no one else has it posted ,or in most cases ,it's music me and/or my friends have made thru the last 30 years ,up until the present. Jeff, I recently lost all my files to mediafire ,as well.
Anyway, thanks again, and whether you do so through this blog or not, ROCK ON.
FileFactory still works fine, RapidShare has certainly improved in terms of how it treats free users. So take your time and see how you're feeling abour re-upping stuff. Doesn't change the fact we can't access your files, but at least you can content yourself that you're not at fault on moral grounds. To the contrary, you always make a point of including commercial links, as I used to as well. Thanks for everything you've been doing here, Jeffen, you know it is widely appreciated far above and beyond the comments you receive, as annoying as their lack can sometimes be.Īnd you and I both know that beating up on you for copyright violations is unfair the music we share is unavailable elsewhere, so it's not like you're taking money out of artists' pockets. Selfishly, I hope you can at least re-up Live Alone in America somewhere, as my browser crashed yesterday before I downloaded it and I planned to return to do so today! I know how bad that sucks, I'm still deciding if and how much to repost from The Rare Stuff post-Megaupload takedown. The only real question, then, is whether individual artists will respond constructively by making material available to their fans(see live recordings by Richard Thompson on BeesWeb and by Graham Parker on both his site on eMusic). Sharing electronic files is simply too easy and anonymous to be squelched effectively, and there will always be some people who will go to great lengths to get stuff for free. That said, I think many artists are being short-sighted and disastrously slow to adapt to the new reality that their product is going to get out. As a matter of principle I don't download commercial releases I don't already own, and I don't frequent sites offering commercially available material. I completely understand that artists should be paid for their work, and have happily purchased "authorized bootlegs" by Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, Wire, Austin Lucas, and various others. As the London Times (I think) famously asked in the case of Keith Richards' first (I think) drug trial, "Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon the Wheel?" The current "shut it all down" craze seems like overkill to me.
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