FUCK YOU TUMBLR & YAHOO

Posted by: yvynyl on 19 November 2014

onlytheyoungdieyoung:

so it finally happened, after 6 years of loyal use and thousands and thousands of posts, Suicidewatch.tumblr.com was deleted this afternoon because of a Thin Lizzy mp3 I posted 3 years ago. once I got the final notice a few months ago I knew it was only a matter of time before this day came, but still it is a total fucking bummer. And there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. complaining to tumblr is a pointless act because I clearly violated copyrights but posting MP3s and photographs that I didn’t own….but at the same time Isn’t That What Every Single Blog On Tumblr Is? sure there is the small percentage of blogs that are run by people who only generate their own content, but 99.99% of what is on most every person’s blog is something that would be some form of DMCA violation. my blogs sin was that I got too popular and had too many followers and showed up every time some asshole working for a record company hit the tumblr search engine looking for complaints to file. 

and now it’s gone. all gone. all those years of maintaining an online scrapbook of my favorite songs and bands, sharing what I liked with other people and hoping to turn on some followers to some killer late 70s punk band or some new garage rock group I just found on bandcamp that they’d never listened to before…but yeah, what I was doing was hurting someone somehow in some mysterious way by exposing people to the things I love.

fuck it. 

This has been going around the music loving Tumblr users for the past few months. Whether created by robots or not, we knew this would happen since, oh, 2008? 

When we look back at this issue 5 years from now we’re probably going to laugh. Nothing lasts. Saving your blog posts from hell, 2 months ago is hard enough. This is an ephemeral space. Easy come, easy go. 

And my advice: don’t upload any MP3s. Ever. Unless you own the media, of course. Keep on podcasting, kiddos!