Google has shut down a number of popular MP3 blogs without warning, after claiming they violated copyright law.
Hosted on Google’s Blogger and Blogspot services, sites such as Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, I Rock Cleveland, Masala and It’s A Rap were deleted, with owners now left in the dark on what they have done wrong.
“Google is treating bloggers like big brother,” Guillaume Decouflet co-founder of Masala told The Guardian. “Shoot first, ask questions after.”
Although there are MP3 blogs on the internet illegally posting music online, many of the bigger sites are legitimate, working closely with record labels and artists.
“I assure you that everything I’ve posted for the past two years, has either been provided by a promotional company, came directly from the record label, or came directly from the artist,” Bill Lipold owner of I Rock Cleveland said.
Being called ‘Musicblogocide 2010′ by the media, because of how many blogs Google removed, a lot of the complaints the sites are attracting are coming under the US’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
“Apparently DMCA operate on their own set of odd rules,” Lipold explained. “they even requested that the BLK JKS’ official blog remove their own song.”
Despite Google making a statement stating that they will remove blogs that have a number of copyright complaints against them, they haven’t explained why so many blogs were removed in such a short period of time.
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