Presto’s Ramblings

“I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -Thoreau

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Entries Tagged as 'IP'

The Case of the Missing YouTube Videos

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the last few days I have been going through the posts that I have imported over from my old Blogspot blog, and I have noticed a disturbing trend: most of the YouTube clips that I have posted come up with a message that says, “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.”  I poked [...]

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Tags: IP · admin · copyright

Killing OLGA

August 13th, 2006 · No Comments

The National Music Publishers Association has shut down the On Line Guitar Archive, a site hosting user-produced guitar tablatures, with a take-down letter under the DMCA. The NMPA’s behavior here, like the RIAA’s is both wrong and stupid. Suing your customers, in this case guitarists, is counter-productive. Musicians, myself included, are voracious [...]

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Tags: IP · RIAA · copyright · music