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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Zoidberg on March 22, 2013, 1735 UTC

Title: Be careful with those off-air recording file names
Post by: Zoidberg on March 22, 2013, 1735 UTC

Just a heads up for folks who upload their off-air recordings of pirate radio broadcasts.

For the past several years I've used "pirate" as a standard keyword for my pirate radio off-air recordings, to make it quicker and easier to sort out those from recordings of shortwave and mediumwave broadcasts, utility stations, numbers, etc.

Apparently MediaFire has an auto-bot that checks for pirated music, software, etc.  So they've recently auto-deleted all of my off-air recordings that used "pirate" as part of the file name, tag or keyword.   >:( It's a freebie account so I'm not complaining.  Most of my files are still intact, so apparently I wasn't consistent about using the term "pirate" as a tag or keyword.

Not a big deal since almost everything was also uploaded to the Internet Archives.  But I'll probably change the file names on those just in case archive.org receives a DMCA complaint and uses a bot to auto-delete any suspicious files.  Can't say I'd blame them since the Internet Archives operates on a shoestring budget.

Title: Re: Be careful with those off-air recording file names
Post by: cmradio on March 23, 2013, 0709 UTC

FFS, real pirated software and albums usually use a coded hash. Dumb bot! ::)

I'd kick up such a stink, they'd whitelist anything I posted, if I were you 8)

Peace!

Title: Re: Be careful with those off-air recording file names
Post by: Zoidberg on March 24, 2013, 0057 UTC

Nah, I'm not gonna gripe over a freebie MediaFire account.  I would if I was paying.