[Infowarrior] - Musicblogocide 2010: The Blame Game

[Richard Forno]

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Musicblogocide 2010: The Blame Game
By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 17th, 2010
Last week Google shut down a series of music blogs running on their  
popular Blogger service. All of the blogs were shut down for alleged  
copyright violations but at least six of the blogs were popular music  
blogs, including several that claimed they had obtained all of the  
music they were sharing legitimately.

This kicked off a firestorm of controversy and blame was quickly  
spread around. Many blamed the labels for sending such clearly false  
DMCA notices, others blamed Google for sending inadequate notices and  
others still blamed the laws themselves

The truth is that there is plenty of blame to go around. When you step  
back and take a look at the situation and how it unfolded, you can see  
that there are no completely innocent parties nor any one guilty  
entity. It was a perfect storm created by a series of bungles and  
missteps that, fortunately, is more rare than it seems.

However, to figure out how to prevent such takedowns in the future,  
let us take a look at what happened and what everyone can do better.

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