Ok...so, apparently my little innocent hobby of making up music web pages turned me into malicious criminal under the copyright law. Of which I’ve been rudely made aware of by turning down my website without prior warning. To be honest, I have nothing against copyright rights, but it seems a little bit overboard to be requested that I need to obtain personal copyright permissions from each artist, whose song is used as a background music(?!) for my pitiful 42 web pages.
There seems to be only one way to deal with it – give up on my hobby and start to collect stamps instead. Unless, of course, I might like to carry on creating fancy pages and share them with...me...
Just wondering if those like myself have been targeted in this new wave of copyright crusade because the big monsters like any P2P networks for file sharing are too hard to get?
And so, Malicious Criminal Miss Tick has officially stopped sharing in her own way her favourite songs; whole website has been backed up onto CD for storing in the closet; files have been deleted from web server. She is currently on her way to reform into law-obedient citizen with nothing to share out any more...[~sobbing puts out a candle for those pages – loved them, each and everyone, each and everyone meant something to me]...
Through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
and far from flying high in clear blue skies
I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide
[Pink Floyd. Final Cut]
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Just to clarify few things from the comments:
no, I didn't use pages for earning money and each page had a song title and a singer of the song played on background.
And yes, it was just a hobby of mine, not a professional website or anything at all - I've heard the song, I liked it, I make a web page to share this with my friends and relatives.
The problem was that I've kept all my music pages on my son's website, he kindly shared with me. So once the owners of web server saw about 40 mp3 files on his site, they didn't bother to enguire about them, but just suspended his account without warning. This is not the way how business should work. I wouldn't mind take pages off, if they'd asked me.
From the other hand, what I did was - purely for my own pleasure and this little incident really put me off, at least for a while. Nothing would change if I won't do web pages, so - there is no problem, isn't it?
And yes, I am fully aware that my losses are not really losses at all. And my entry wasn't intended as whining, and I'm sorry if it did sound this way. I wasn't complaining about unfairness, you know, just writing about what happenned. This is what diary is for, isn't it?