Naturally, they picked the weekend to do it, when the big media outlets are home for the weekend. It appears the feds are cracking down on blogetery.com. I confess, I have never used blogetery, but I have visited the site in the past, led there by a search on one of the big search engines.
The Feds are evidently accusing them of reprinting copyrighted material. Which, in my book is bad, as I get stuff stolen all the time and would like to see the bad guys put in their place once in a while. However, I am not sure that blogetery is at fault. After all, they are only providing a platform. It is rather some of their users who are swiping video material and putting it on-line.
Where does the responsibility for someone posting copyrighted materials on your site end? What if someone should respond to this post with a full length quote from another blog? Without knowing the provenance of the comment, would the innocuous mcgelligot.com be shut down? Does Google bear responsibility for pointing to them?
Well, this whole thing is still developing, but it does seem pretty heavy handed. I won’t go into a political rant. I leave those for some of my other blogs.
