This might not be the correct community, but if anyone knows anything about dmca and the like here, i guess it is you guys!

I am wondering what is likely to happen if i made a blog where i would make songs available? Not in a “here are a thousand albums to download for free”, but more discussing a single song in a blog post and embedding it in a playable state (and thus also downloadable) served directly from my server (and not some spotify / soundcloud / whatever link).

The blog would not be anonymous, it would be possible to trace the server and everything directly to me. Blog would likely be obscure and not grow much. There would be no ad revenues. I am based in norway (in europe, not in the eu but in the eea in case you are not aware).

Am i looking at a couple of dmca takedown requests, legally enforceable fines, lawsuits? I dont expect to get legal advise i can use as a basis for my defense in a potential legal case in the future, but just wanted to know if you had any insights in what could happen.

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
    45·
    2 days ago

    I don’t understand how you could have such an idea:

    • playable state: bad, downloadable: worse
    • not anonymous: lol what?
    • no ad revenues: irrelevant
    • the best that can happen is it’s taken down, the worst is you lose money

    it is not to facilitate piracy

    You said it would be downloadable, which one is it?

    You don’t have the rights to do this, the owners don’t want you to do this, why would you do this with your real name?

    • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Lol not very imaginative then i suppose? I want to make a fun hobby project for myself and a niche audience. Thats how i can have this idea. And i am simply gauging if this approach could be used without getting fucked with fines and legal issues.

      It would be downloadable because im not sure how i would serve it for playback without it also being possible to download. There would be no big “download the song here” button. The goal is not to share song files but to discuss songs i like and allow readers to play along (whole song, parts of song, whatever suits the blog post). Side effect of that is that it would be downloadable.

      If you mean that “facilitation of piracy” is anything where someone would be able to obtain an illegal copy of the song then yea sure, but in that case youtube is already the biggest facilitator of piracy there is because it is trivial to download any song from there.

      • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        YouTube has lawyers, listening is allowed by contracts (have you ever heard of YouTube Music?), and downloading is forbidden by the terms of services.

        You’re not YouTube.