Watch this space.
Yep, the Backwards video has been flagged as predicted. Hurrah.
It seems that the video known as ApoXoqA has been “blocked” on Google Video. At first I assumed it was for use of copyright music with no permission, which seemed fair enough, but according to Google, apparently it was Content IDed, which apparently means it’s the same length as or has similar parameters to existing content or something like that, and thus apparently was flagged automatically. Apparently.
That makes no sense because the soundtrack is three songs long, one of which was edited out of a 20 minute track, another of which was only the second half of a song, making the video next to impossible to flag on automatic grounds, so I can only assume that doesn’t actually apply in this case and indeed one of the copyright holders in this instance (Sony BMG, Robert Fripp, Virgin, or whoever else) sent a letter to Google. I know Fripp is very dogged in his protection of Copyright, but as this was not a commerical venture, I suspect it to be some low-level corporate copyright hound. Of course, there was no commercial aspect to ApoXoqA, indeed the very reason I left it sitting on my hard drive for so long was that it does contain copyright music, and I figured sooner or later, they’d catch up to it in their rounds. I’m not going to dispute its removal, so that video is now gone.
It’s only so long until the Backwards video catches in somebody’s trawler net too. Hell, the only reason the actual PMT episodes can exist is under fair use for parody or derivative works or whatever they call it.
In order to make ApoXoqA conform to Copyright law, I’d have to remove the soundtrack, and it would make even less sense, so then I’d have to insert captions telling people to play the soundtrack manually themselves, which they would first have to acquire, and in the case of the latter two tracks, … And frankly, nobody cares. If you do, contact us in some fashion and we’ll fix you up (with our fists?).
No PMT news.
Well folks, sooner or later the truth catches up with you. PMT has been something of a low priority recently, and despite plenty of opportunities, we simply haven’t bothered. Simply not bothering turns to several months of not bothering, and then you start to question what you’re doing. I mean, what is PMT? And why should it be sad that there is no PMT? If we don’t care then why should anybody right? And I’m pretty sure nobody else cares what we do.
So the point is, well, from the end of May it is unlikely PMT will reconvene. Considering how often we’ve been able to do it while living together, imagine how often we’ll be able to do it while not. I’d like to think we could at least pull off Tom’s episode and maybe a farewell episode of some sort, but you know, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
