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Just heard this song today. Love it.

Music country, Music, video

On my way home this afternoon, I had a chance to listen to a lot of XM Radio and my iPod. A song that I have heard over the past week has been “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” by Darius Rucker. If any of you have heard the song, you’ll notice Darius has a very familiar voice. He was the lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish. It took me a week to figure it out until I finally looked it up. I really like the song, and he has an amazing singing voice. Take a listen to his new release!

Music country, Darius Rucker, Hootie and the Blowfish, radio, video

I got an email today from YouTube stating one of my recent videos was rejected due to copyright infringement. I had posted a video last week of Widespread Panic covering Van Morrison’s “And It Stoned Me”. I really like this song by Van Morrison, and also dig Widespread’s cover of it, which I saw live at Uptown Theater here in KC.

Anyway, it was one the second video I had posted of some of video I have taken at several concerts I have been to so far, but the first copyright notice I have gotten. In all fairness, YouTube does state pretty clearly that any footage of concerts without the express permission of the copyright owners is prohibited. So, nothing I can really do.

The internet has become so congested with piracy this, piracy that, lawsuit here, lawsuit there. Recently, VIACOM sued Google (YouTube’s parent company) for a billion dollars, and a judge ordered Google to hand over every user’s information, how many times they watched any video, what they posted, etc. This is coming from a judge that probably knows very little about the internet. However, it is setting a pretty bad precedence on a user’s privacy. I have a feeling this type of thing is going to continue until the Recording and Movie industry can figure out a way to capitalize on the internet as an advertising and distribution medium. The only thing they’ve figured out so far is how to sue people. Seems to me like they’re trying to paddle upstream here.

For now, I’ll abide by the terms YouTube has set forth. Maybe someday we can spread the word of artists so that new fans can go out and see live shows, instead of pirating their mp3s off the internet and never knowing how great live shows are.

Music, Technology copyright, internet, Music, video, Widespread Panic, YouTube