Things That Piss Me Off: A Fantastic New Series

First off, a little housekeeping, as indicated by the title I'm starting a new series of blog posts entitled "Things That Piss Me Off". Essentially any time something pisses me off to some imaginary point I'll make an entry about it. For the most part this will include very insignificant subject matter, but we'll see where it goes.

A few hours ago I came back from my morning classes to find an unopened email. Now, in order to link songs to posts, I use a site called Box.net, and in short, the email was from their staff concerning a song I had uploaded a few weeks ago and infringement on a previously-held copyright. They informed me that the song I had uploaded received a complaint, which resulted in the file being deleted and a warning that any future infractions would involve the termination of my service.

I understand the reason and I fully understand their response, however I do not understand why box.net was contacted before myself. As I stated in my first post "I will immediately remove any songs at the artist's request.". Now I don't expect whoever contact box.net to read through my archive, but, even as a common courtesy they could contact the owner of the blog before emailing 3rd parties.  By automatically contacting the 3rd party they're essentially calling me an asshole.  Someone who is unreasonable and unwilling to remove the song myself without being threatened by box.net staff.  What pisses me off even more is that my original post was removed, which costs me time and effort and it costs the artists exposer (to admittedly a very small audience).  Now I'd like to think that in the future I will be contacted before a 3rd party, but how often do people listen to me.  Thus concludes the first episode of Things That Piss Me Off.