I didn't delete it, shane, but were you asking for an mp3 by any chance? taz and seanyboy (or maybe it was dodgy) put the kabosh on mp3 requests a long time ago...a year or so or more.

Maybe it would be a good idea to put a note on the posting page about it, huh.

Yes. Thanks, iconomy. Yeah, my attendance here has been spotty this last year, so I missed that. I would've weighed in on the discussion (was there one?) too. The CYA legalise is always thus: When requesting an mp3, one is only requesting it via yousendit to listen to it once, naturally not to record or save or reproduce it.

No biggy, but an e-mail would have been nice (and taken five seconds.) This isn't MeFi.

So, wait... we can post a yousendit music file but not ask for one?

Yeah, I *think* that might be the case....I do see a ton of them linked here.

When requesting an mp3, one is only requesting it via yousendit to listen to it once, naturally not to record or save or reproduce it.

Divshare allows one to listen to an mp3 without downloading it at all. Perhaps a better choice for that rationale.

Perhaps a better choice for that rationale.

Well, that's just the CYA... Which should be good enough for a little tiny fish not worth the time and trouble to catch to Cover his Ass with.

Okay, bmarkey mentioned to me the in-house radio here, and now I potentially understand better the rationale for CYA-ing the buns a little more.

I think that if someone posts a song just because they want to share, unbidden, it falls into that gray area where "music blogs" reside and isn't likely to cause a problem.

If one person asks for a song and someone else sends it, it starts to become "file sharing" and a little dicier on the legal front.

Bullshit distinctions, yes, but that's how the law works. (The law is broken.) I should diagram some of the contortions we go through at work to keep from falling into the "illegal copying" realm, even when it's music we legally have the rights to. It's ridiculous.

Well, with radio concerns, I understand (other than no e-mail to me.)
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Mods, delete this thread if you want. No worries.

Actually asking folks for anything sent to you is off limits in general. "Don't make posts asking for gifts or contributions"

I did not delete your post. It is odd that whoever did, did not tell you why. (sure you hit post)?

I must have lost that memo before I got to read it.

Note to self: "Do not request historical performances by Scott Joplin on MeChat."

I didn't delete, but BP has it exactly right... Basically we're confused. I did try to find out what the precise limits, etc. are, and nobody seems to know. One legal type bunny did some research on it for us - and wasn't able to come up with anything definitive either. I really wanted to put down very exact "can do"/"can't do" things, but we don't have much to go on there, and thus the very act of setting it down in that way could be even worse. The general feeling "out there" at this time seems to be: music blogs share limited tunes for people to listen to and discover new music and buy new music, and that seems to be okey-dokey so far, but asking for specific things becomes file sharing.

(sure you hit post)?

Yep, I saw the post. I planned on deleting it and emailing shane but I got called away from my desk and forgot all about it. If you (as a mod) click any 'edit' next to any post, you'll go into mod mode - click the 'edit' tab up top and then scroll down - greyed out posts have been deprecated by someone.

Wow, I think Metachat has become self-aware. "Must protect my bunnies...must delete potentially-gray-area-law-breaking-posts..."

lol @ muddgirl