No blog post this weekend. My mother has been in and out of the hospital this weekend. She's better now, but I'm still upset and exhausted. I was going to try to do a short blog, but then I found out I got a DMCA take-down notice for a song I got from frikkin' Minnesota Public Radio. For crying out loud.
It turns out I was wrong about which band I got the take down notice on last time. They don't actually feel the need to inform me of which song is in question, so through process of elimination, I figured out that it's actually a band I thought was pretty cool. The sucky thing is it was a band I really liked, and their labels' tag line says something about real artists doing music their own way. Well, I guess it is their own way, huh?
I took the song down and I wrote a very expressive letter to the band manager and the internet marketing manager about why I thought this was an unfair action on their part. I can understand if I had ripped the song to mp3 myself, but I didn't. I linked to the song from an affiliate of National Public Radio. Have I already said for crying out loud?