Google shuts down music blogs without warning:
Quote: In what critics are calling "musicblogocide 2010", Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google's Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet.
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Jolly as Google may be, none of the bloggers who received these notices are "understanding" in the least. Although such sites once operated on the internet's fringes, almost exclusively posting songs without permission, many blogs are now wined, dined and even paid (via advertising) by record labels. After the success of blog-buzzy acts such as Arcade Fire, Lily Allen and Vampire Weekend, entire PR firms are dedicated to courting armchair DJs and amateur critics.
What do I have around these parts? Lame ass people constantly taking my constantly changing email address and "subscribing" me to their stupid spam of low budget promos for their whack ass indie singles no one will ever care about. I mean the stuff they are peddling is bad imitations of Rick Ross, and he's got no talent to begin with.
I've done something seriously wrong in this life.
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