YOUTUBE TUESDAYS: Nadia and Copyright Infringment
| 13 October 2009
You win this round, faceless conglomerate...
Sorry about the late update today. I was actually ready for an EARLY update, until I kept getting slapped with AUDIO DISABLED notices because of the music. I wanted to open today's post with, "Hey guys, today, instead of a hokey 80's song, I'm going with something more contemporary!" Yeah, big fucking mistake. Despite the fact that the perky, pop nature of the song fits perfectly with the flippant nature of the imagery, if I could just not deal with the stupid Music Industry Nazi Menace, I'd prefer it. So, rather than kowtow to the "I can't seem to figure out why music sales are in the tank when we treat our consumer base like crap" RIAA, I was doing research and trying to get around the audio detection. I tried everything from varying the bitrate to resampling the music (to try to get around any byte calculators or whatever they may be using). My guess is that they're using an actual listening program, that unless I can figure out the frequency to get around it, I'm going to have to just fight copyright with fair use. Sorry for the long rant about this, when we should be talking about......you know, fish and water and stuff. But que sara...that's the hand we've been dealt with, isn't it? Just remember that next time, you see that "Warner Music Group" logo on the back of the CD you're thinking about buying, that they're not friends to PHN. This is Peter "Top of Nixon's 'Enemies List' " Nguyen, signing off!