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File Sharing Website Crackdowns Affect Free and LEGAL Downloads Too

For anyone who is somehow not aware of file sharing sites take-downs / problems being a real issue for LEGAL album uploads - Vulpiano Records’s Mediafire folder is intact apart from the #1 most commonly downloaded release: Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent which has been removed, despite being clearly released on my netlabel as free and legal. I will reblog the reuploaded files later.

It is a very large file size of an album to re-upload in mp3 and FLAC (which had been hosted on Megaupload, we know what happened with that…), so it won’t be until later today that it is back up again. I am likely going to be launching a label Bandcamp account to make sure that this doesn’t happen again and the files are safe - artists, it appears that you can’t rely on these websites to take care of your files even if there is clear documentation that it is meant to be free and shared. The question is, however, why did Mediafire comply with a request to remove a legally free album download? Probably because they can’t be bothered to check whether the request is legitimate or not. Very frustrated.