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[rhea314]

I have no idea how to tag or file this, but I figure it might be useful for others to think about.

I just got a notice from mediafire that some of my podfics were suspended because they violated DCMA license stuff. Looking at the body of the email it looks like all sorts of video and audio files that were tagged to a particular show (Kuroshitsuji) were all given this notice. I had two podfics that were not directly tagged with the shows name and they did not receive a suspension.

I know it can be helpful for people to tag their own podfics on mediafire for easier searching/organization but given this it might be useful to attempt to keep the product (TV show/Movie/whatever) out of the title of the podfic and out of tags in case this becomes a more frequent thing, particularly if using mediafire.

Comments

[cybel]

Ouch!

Would you mind cross posting this to LJ? It's pretty important and should get as wide distribution as possible!

[rhea314]

Done! Good idea, I wasn't sure which would reach more people, both is probably the best answer.

[cybel]

Thanks for the cross post. I've made a info:general/warnings tag to cover such posts.

Definitely both comms is best. They each have an exclusive readership with a good deal of overlap. :-)

[onthehill]

You should probably also inform EFF (electronic frontier foundation) - this is wrong. Producing an 'artwork' inspired by a TV show is not infringing on any licence as far as I know.