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Here's the email I got and, the funny thing is, check out the weird items that caused the complaint:
Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog is alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. As a result, we have reset the post(s) to "draft" status. (If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.) This means your post - and any images, links or other content - is not gone. You may edit the post to remove the offending content and republish, at which point the post in question will be visible to your readers again.
A bit of background: the DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. If you believe you have the rights to post the content at issue here, you can file a counter-claim. For more information on our DMCA policy, including how to file a counter-claim, please see http://www.google.com/dmca.
The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org
A bit of background: the DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. If you believe you have the rights to post the content at issue here, you can file a counter-claim. For more information on our DMCA policy, including how to file a counter-claim, please see http://www.google.com/dmca.
The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Affected URLs:
http://cosmobells.blogspot.
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So we got a charity album, a decades old cd single, some music "mixtape" ripped from a teletext broadcast compilated by someone else which you could hardly call cd quality, and a bunch of well and truly ancient Max Bygraves vinyl!
Now you might think I should just continue and let those in charge take things down if they get complaints but, really, this is the final straw in a whole bag of slowly rotting hay. I hope and trust you enjoyed CosmoBells for it's brief few years of insane and unusual excellence, originality and surrealness. To those who constantly supported CosmoBells and my previous blogs throughout the years, I thank you dearly.
Since it's near Christmas (not that I'm really into it!) and this really is the end of the line, I decided to put up the donations box in the top right corner of the blog for those who would like to give a little something to put a smile back on my face and invest in a few bottles of schnapps!.....
So, on that note, that's it. I'm quitting. I'll leave CosmoBells up for you to enjoy and "take advantage" of what's left of this blog (I'm sure more posts will be taken down in the near future - I reckon this is just the beginning of takedowns - so grab what you can before it disappears!) but there won't be any new posts from me after this.
Cheers and all the best,
X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut.
Update: More of this DMCA takedown shit:
http://cosmobells.blogspot.http://cosmobells.blogspot.
http://cosmobells.blogspot.
http://cosmobells.blogspot.
http://cosmobells.blogspot.
Like I suspected, someone is going through the entire blog reporting this stuff. Weird how only now the "DMCA" are taking notice of the older posts. Even weirder how there are blogs out there which have been sharing full dvds of the latest movies for years without hassle. Obviously someone out there has a personal vendetta with me and CosmoBells.
