Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled

AnonCow sends in a peculiar story from TorrentFreak, which describes the plight of a free-download music site that has been summarily evicted from the Internet for violating its own copyright. The problem seems to revolve around the host's insistence that proof of copyright be snail-mailed to them. Kind of difficult when your copyright takes the form of a Creative Commons license that cannot be verified unless its site is up. "The website of an Internet-based record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself 'The First Ever Donation Based Record Label,' but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug."

Comments

Re:Stop the world

[philspear]

Yeah, but usually, the last one is just as hard. It's kind of odd when you have a strong hammer stroke, let's call it "Election 2000" followed by a huge gigantic, nuclear powered one, let's call it "9/11," followed by some other still pretty significant ones, such as one I'd like to call "patriot act" and one I'd like to call "gitmo", then some ones that are even smaller but still pretty heavy, like a hammer blow I'd call "Paris Hilton" or "American idol." Somewhere in there was another huge one called "Let's attack Iraq and think up a reason later" And let's not forget the sizeable "Election 2004" strike. Then a bunch of smaller ones. But then a little kid named "some ISP" comes up with a "wierd copyright snafu" wiffle bat and swings, and that breaks the stone of JonnyGTO's mind? Totally possible, just bizzare.

Re:I listen to this band.

[who's got my nicknam]

If you have their music, please host it somewhere so we can download it! The more people who can host this stuff the better.