The irony
I am looking for a new hosting company. I can't out of principle stay with company who'll cave-in to bully tactics and ennable complete lack of legal procedure in dealing with DMCA claims. The DMCA can be used in an abusive manner by IP and hosting companies and I believe this has been the case with me.
I used the cover of Hello! to not even discuss Brangelina or Shiloh but the idiocy behind the idea of exclusivity in the digital age. Meanwhile, there are at last count 15+ prominent gossip blogs running not just front cover pages but scans of the whole magazine article.
I have been discussing this issue with some people who have had a lot of experience on this issue (I will be announcing them soon) and the comment of one of them struck me as totally ironic. I can't tell you who said this to me, but the quote is priceless : "You may have to get a hosting company with servers in another country ... like Russia.
Unfruggingbelievable.
To exercise my first amendment and fair use rights I may have to get a server in the former Soviet Union, the bastion of European communism and the reason the world was caught in the deep freeze of the Cold War.
That Russia.
That ironic.
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Reminds me...
Last year I was discussing the American media with some Russian friends. In our discussions it became clear that the Russian media may be about as reliable as the American media now. And it really isn't that the Russian media has improved that much!