The Dunshelm Players: website news
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our service has been suspended with immediate effect.
As far as I know you are absolutely right that the commentary tracks are the furthest thing to a copyright breach. The former stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 set up a website a few years ago where they sell (amongst other things) comedy commentary tracks to popular movies. There's no actual material from the films included so they don't need to get permission, at least that is my understanding of it. The website is http://www.rifftrax.com - it's a commercial company. It is based in America of course, but they sell quite happily to the UK. Surely this can be cited as a precedence if you continue to have trouble with them?
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Agreed. Also, watch out for snakes.
awaits a high five from Alex_Smith
Eeeeeeegah! high fives
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To coin a cliche, "Sh*t just got real". Our 4Shared account has been hit by a second DMCA, 'quarantining' another batch of our MP3s, and forcing the matter to stretch on for at least another ten days from now.
At present, I am unaware of who has placed this request, although it looks like it is LeakID again. I am now considering whether to take full legal action against them.
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You are kidding me -_-
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Well, I'm afraid the news refuses to get better. We've now been hit by a third DMCA claim by LeakID. For some reason, 4Shared have made no attempt to resolve the two counter-notifications I filed, nor to re-set our 'copyright count' to zero, and so we've now fallen foul of the 'three-strikes-you're-out' rule, and our account has been closed down.
I still plan to take legal action against LeakID - possibly also against 4Shared as they are not following the rules of their 'Safe Harbour' status - but we are now going to have to try and find another server that we can be confident won't cave in to copyright trolls.
Sadly, this looks like it could drag on for a long while.
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It's official: I'm a lawyer when I'm older >:D
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Right, the good-ish news is that The Dunshelm Players are semi-back-in-business. Basically, after weeks of banging my head against the wall, it's become very clear that 4Shared are not going to give us our server space back, even under pain of death. I was planning legal action against them for violating their own 'Safe Harbour' status, but after taking advice from a member of the family who is in the legal profession, I decided in the end that life is just too short for those kinds of wranglings over a few fanfics. So instead I've started putting our recordings onto a new server called Tindeck, as recommended by Alec Downs.
So far, all the files for Famous For Retreating, When Five Tribes Go To War, and Green have been restored, and should now be downloadable again (touch wood - I haven't had time to test the links properly yet). I'm afraid the interface on Tindeck is very ugly and messy, but at least some access is now open again. You can access the new download pages the usual way, by going to http://dunshelmplayers.wordpress.com/.
Other old files will be restored over the next few days. There may be problems uploading some of the episode commentaries though, as I do not possess all of them, and at present, 4Shared will not allow me to access the 'quarantine' area they were moved to on their webspace for me to retrieve them. We'll see how that goes.
Work will soon resume on mixing Grey, although I am still awaiting some of the voice recordings for that.
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That's brilliant! Unless Jennie has magically found a way to send you her recordings, then I'll pester her to get them sorted
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