Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Government Shut Down 73,000 Blogs Today: If it Happens to This One...What You Should Do

In today's news, the government today shut down the ENTIRE "WordPress" blogging system because of copyright violations involving (although no one is sure why) perhaps, illegal movie streaming by some people's blogs.

This is a shocker because 73,000 people were keeping their blogs on WordPress and now they have lost their entire blogs, all their data, all their old blogs, everything gone, not to be returned to them!

The story said that other blogging systems could be next. My system, this one, is called Blogger.com. I suppose that if the FBI finds movie streaming violations anywhere on this system, or whatever they found on WordPress, the same thing will happen, and this blog system will be lost forever.

I regret never keeping copies of this blog from the start, but I never imagined that entire sites would be wiped out by the government. This is truly horrifying.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU COME HERE AND FIND THIS BLOG SYSTEM ENTIRELY SHUT DOWN AND WIPED OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT?

If that happens, and if you want to continue getting 'blog' posts about Cowboy Billy, then AT THAT TIME (no need to do it now) SEND ME AN EMAIL asking to be put on an emailing list. At that point, I will send out reports by email to the group of addresses that asks for emails.

So we would lose this blog, but you would still get the posts by email.

The only way you would know that this blog is shut down is by coming here and finding only a notice from the government saying they've taken it down. (I would not be able to put up a post that says "This blog has been shut down." There simply wouldn't be the blog anymore, and you'd see just a government notice.)

THAT is when to send me an email request to continue getting posts by email only.

How likely is this? I would guess pretty likely! Blogger.com has probably hundreds of thousands of people keeping blogs on it, and the chances that some of those people are streaming illegal films, or doing whatever they shouldn't have been doing, seems strong.

Meanwhile, if Blogger.com still exists on Thursday, July 22, that will be the next post, I expect.

Love to all yall...

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