Another Reason to HATE the RIAA

This blog that I read, Battle of the Midwestern Housewives posted a not so positive review of the new Rise Against album and within 48 hours had received a DMCA take down notice. So they posted a new review which starts with the following:

Housewives wrote:I know I already posted this... but Blogger took it down because they got a DMCA take down notice... which makes no fucking sense since I did not post any songs off the album (I had a song off of an old Rise Against album on Fat Wreck)... which leads me to believe that it was taken down because it's a less than favorable review. So Interscope Records: Fuck off, you have no jurisdiction.

Here's a link to the full new review of "Appeal to Reason".

Way to go Housewives!

The RIAA continues to kill music.

I really, really am tired of the music industry. Music use to mean so much to me, but now it doesn't. Radio is garbage and the music industry sucks.

Atomm wrote:I really, really am tired of the music industry. Music used to mean so much to me, but now it doesn't. Radio is garbage and the music industry sucks.

Yes it does.
The industry sux.

But why music stopped to mean sth for u?

Can´t u just pick some good stuff and ignore the rest?

Support only bands that r worth it.
Small labels.
Cut off the rest.

Apparently Housewives weren't the only ones. This is from another music blog that I read:

Bag of Songs wrote:Okay, I'm sure you're wondering why there hasn't been as much music here lately. Last week's DMCA takedown was not an incident isolated to BOS, but part of a huge wave of indiscriminate takedowns and post deletions across the blogosphere, many of which seemed to be focused on blogs hosted on Blogspot.

You can read about some of the many incidents here:

http://songbytoad.com/2008/10/23/dont-be-evil/

http://songbytoad.com/2008/10/28/email-to-columbia-sony-bmg/

http://thevinylvillain.blogspot.com/2008/1...-number-is.html

http://www17seconds.blogspot.com/2008/10/g...to-bullies.html

http://festivefifty.blogspot.com/2008/10/b...ing-of-end.html

http://todiebyyourside.blogspot.com/2008/1...e-paranoid.html

http://www.settingthewoodsonfire.com/2008/...ld-blogger.html

http://speedofdark-web.blogspot.com/2008/1...er-in-dark.html

http://www.berkeleyplaceblog.com/2008/10/2...r-all-the-fish/

http://somuchsilence.com/?p=1242

http://fongsongs.blogspot.com/2008/10/just-words.html

http://coverlaydown.blogspot.com/2008/10/n...eek-part-1.html

http://everybodycares.blogspot.com/2008/10/end-of-eceu.html

http://thepopcop.blogspot.com/2008/10/its-...e-its-gone.html

http://vivalamainstream.blogspot.com/2008/...ic-blogger.html

http://channelmondo.blogspot.com/2008/10/d...-really_24.html

http://alsmusicrant.blogspot.com/2008/10/b...ly-un-love.html

http://whothehell.net/archives/1982

http://ruembarrassed.blogspot.com/2008/10/going-postal.html

Sweet blog those guys in Edinburgh got there.
A must 4 everybody who loves music.

Comment on Song, by Toad:
This whole fucking thing pisses me off so much I could spit fucking feathers. Google. What the fuck are Google doing? Like they have to run and hide from a company the size of Columbia? Do they fuck.