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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Worry
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:11:22 -0400 (EDT)
Worry Since I lost my YouTube account, I fought to get it back, but to no avail. The charges were violation of Viacom and obscene videos. I 'won' the first round against Viacom, at which point I was told my account would be rein- stated. The charge then switched to the second. They said there were num- erous videos, and named one which was not obscene. In fact, I was careful with YouTube and none of the pieces put up were sexual at all. They refused to name others and I was told I was in violation of a number of laws. Instead of giving me further information - the nature of the complaints, the list of videos, they first sent me cut-and-paste responses and then no response at all. I've given up. There were around 70 videos at YouTube. I first heard about the take-down from a researcher, who was looking for certain pieces. I hadn't posted for quite a while to YouTube and wasn't aware the account was 'suspended' - which means closed fact. Because of this and my own insecurities, again I urge you, if you're interested, to download my works from http://www.alansondheim.org/ - so far no troubles at all, and from http://espdisk.com/alansondheim . The Net is too corporate, too unstable, too hacked at this point. The latter site contains all my music to date, except for two forthcoming releases - one from FireMuseum, and one from ESP-Disk. There's lots of interest I think. The former contains all my texts and a great number of videos, images, and executables. In any case, these sites are still good. For your enjoyment, two new pieces of sound/music below: http://www.alansondheim.org/ams1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/ams2.mp3 Thanks, Alan =========================================================================