rohitj's domain » Jamendo http://rohitj.net Yet more clitches Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 This site is up again http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/05/22/this-site-is-up-again/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/05/22/this-site-is-up-again/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 23:39:10 +0000 admin http://rohitj.net/blog/?p=67 Finally Bluehost guys didn’t listen to any logic. I sent them a complete list of all songs and their source and license. They still weren’t ready to listen. Of course I didn’t remove the songs. So, my site was pulled down. 1 day before the given deadline. I hope I didn’t loose any important email. The mailing list I made on my account are still working :x .

Anyways, I now plan to run my own server. Where (yes, this is the first question)? Not sure. When? Not sure. Will decide very soon. Till then I am using NearlyFreeSpeech.net . Because of the tight schedule, I couldn’t do this before. NearlyFreeSpeech ’s services are rather impressive. Leave emails, for which they don’t provide any near decent solution, rest of the things are quite good. I will be charged for what I use. I think if I remove my photo section (which I have as I don’t have enough net speed) my cost would be pretty low as compared to Bl(oody)uehost. Also, they didn’t ask for passport copy or license copy for ssh access. That was nice. The concept of “site” is pretty nice. You can make as many “site”s as you want, and you can ssh to the site individually. I had some glitches with php file write permissions, but it was settled soon. Their  control panel is way too decent. They have put the neccessary things only. Not like cPanel where you find lot of random stuff which you never use. I hope to have happy time here.

There might be some broken links in this site now. Please excuse me for that, I am in process of fixing some broken links that I could find.

]]> http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/05/22/this-site-is-up-again/feed/ 1 Copyright and Bluehost http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/04/24/copyright-and-bluehost/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/04/24/copyright-and-bluehost/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:17:04 +0000 rohitj http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/04/copyright-and-bluehost/ So, yesterday I got a mail from bluehost saying that there are some copyrighted material on my site. I bought an account with bluehost in June/July 2007. I share it with some of my friends. One of them is bheekling who hates US copyright laws and the way they use it to exploit people. If you talk in favor of RIAA, he will probably kill you. :) . And he also prefers to play with these laws. … so anyways, when we bought the hosting space, we decided that we will not put any pirated material on the site. It so seems that initially we were in doubt that japanese animes are not copyrighted. But it so seems they are. Its not copyrighted in US though. So, US law can not make me remove them from my site. Anyways Bluehost guys said that I have the following thing on site, which I must remove. (they use the word “copy written material”. I have no idea what that means :P )

Anime: /public_html/anime/
Movies: /public_html/bheekling/files/Pans.Labyrinth.2006.720p.HDDVD.x264-SEPTiC
TV Shows: /public_html/bheekling/files/TV/Nodame Cantabile/
Music: ~/rohitj_music/*

Now, “Movie” is surely copyrighted. bheekling uploaded that temporarily by mistake. He has removed.
This is my response to bluehost. Let us see what happens. :

Movie :  The movie has been removed. Thanks for informing me.

TV Shows and Anime: These are not “copy written” material. For Anime and TV Show you can check the site http://www.sars-fansubs.com/index.php?cont=btpage . These are not a US product, it’s a Japanese product, and it’s not copyrighted in the US. So, I think you understand that I need not remove these items.

Music : All the music is downloaded from the site http://jamendo.com. The music is licensed under Creative Commons license, and hence I am allowed to store it in my account. And hence, I need not remove them.

Also, in the term and conditions of bluehost it says :
Violations of Intellectual Property Rights
Any violation of any person’s intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, rights of publicity or other personal rights is prohibited. Bluehost.com is required by law to remove or block access to content appearing on or through the Services upon receipt of proper notice of copyright infringement (see “Copyright Infringement Notice Information” below).

Which means that someone needs to issue a notice to *BlueHost* for you to take this action. Can you tell if you have got any such notice. If yes, can I see it?

If you still want me to remove any of the files, you should tell me why you think these are “copy written material”.
]]> http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/04/24/copyright-and-bluehost/feed/ 12 3 Achievements(?) : All In 1 Day http://rohitj.net/blog/2007/10/07/3-achievements-all-in-1-day/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2007/10/07/3-achievements-all-in-1-day/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:05:14 +0000 rohitj http://www.rohitj.net/blog/2007/10/07/3-achievements-all-in-1-day/ 1 : Zeropage initially released its tracks under CC by-nd-nc. Their tracks are really cool. I specially liked Ambient India. So, I talked to them, and asked them if they could remove the nd-nc clauses, and indeed they did. :) It’s under CC by-sa now. :) )

2 : I asked pornophonique. to release their videos in OGG format. Kai stunted me saying “this wmv-stuff is quite a pain in the ass, i know!”. But they didn’t know how to convert the videos, so I suggested then ffmpeg2theora. But it seems they didn’t have time for it, so Kai has asked to me convert the videos and share it for them :) . I will do that as soon as possible.

3 : Antaragni is a cultural festival organized by IIT Kanpur (of course only students organize everything). Students from all over India comes and participate in this event. This time, antaragni has flash page. The flash used the song “Right Here Right Now by Fat Boy Slim”. Of course I knew that they don’t have license to use this song. Even in IITK, people don’t know that there is something called “copyright” and there is something called “license” and “piracy” is illegal. So, anyways in IITK.MISC newsgroup I raised this issue, and they had to remove the song. :D . Since the flash is not sounding cool without music, so I suggested them to one of the songs Jamendo offers. I mainly suggested them “Steep”, “Bradsucks”, “pornophonique” (yes, pornophonique’s songs are under ND clause, but they said, they will give permission very easily), “terremoto”, “Josh Woodward” and now I have told them about “Zeropage” as well. I am hoping that they will take my advise. :)

]]> http://rohitj.net/blog/2007/10/07/3-achievements-all-in-1-day/feed/ 3 Drake : The Dragon Hunter http://rohitj.net/blog/2007/07/31/drake-the-dragon-hunter/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2007/07/31/drake-the-dragon-hunter/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:34:37 +0000 admin http://rohitj.net/blog/?p=8 So, this was going to be last weekend in US. So, me and Conley decided to do something interesting. We were thinking of a 2 day hike, but we couldn’t plan that. So finally we decided to make a video, and Conley came up with ‘Dragon Hunting’. And then, we decided that Conley will be the dragon hunter and I will be the cameraman. We roamed about Blacksburg and Cascades and asked people some dumb questions. No doubt, it was perfect fun for us. Some people gave real funny reactions to our questions. Some people were boring enough to speak any interesting thing. We tried talking to some shop keepers but most of them refused to come on camera. But anyways, it was a great hunt.

You can download the video using one of these torrents :

Conley did the editing of video and he did that very well. We have used “Steep”’s songs which are under Creative Commons license. You can find Steep on jamendo.com. Our video is of course under Creative Commons License.

Enjoy the video :

part 1

part 2

part 3

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