The Black Keys Fan Lounge Forum

to those who couldn't access the forum in the last hours

The Black keys Fan Lounge received a take down notice today which the hosting provider of this site acted on immediately and removed access to the forum directory

I can only reiterate that download links aren't allowed to be posted ie Next Girl. They have been removed.

I don't understand why linking to a blog where there's an embedded song that can't be downloaded is illegal ie Everlasting Light. Its been removed to comply and get the forum back online. Further advice is being taken on this.

Take Down Notice:

NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT AND DECLARATION

TO: THEBLACKKEYSFANLOUNGE.COM
brucini@theblackkeysfanlounge.com

New Dream Network, LLC
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REGARDING: http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com

The following threads contain posts that include discussion of and links to unauthorized material from The Black Keys. Please remove these topics/threads immediately:

"Everlasting Light"
http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/everlasting-light

"Next Girl"
http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/topic/next-girl

NONESUCH RECORDS, a division of Warner Communications Inc.

I, the undersigned, do solemnly and sincerely declare and CERTIFY UNDER
PENALTY OF PERJURY that:

1. I am the owner or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner
of certain
intellectual property rights, said owner being named NONESUCH RECORDS
("IP Owner").

2. I have a good faith belief that the materials identified above are
not authorized
by the above IP Owner, its agent, or the law and therefore infringe
the IP Owner's
rights according to the laws of the (check all that apply):

United States
Australia
Brazil
Canada
EUR
France
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Italy
Japan
Netherlands
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United Kingdom
All of the above X

Please act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material
or items
claimed to be infringing.

3. I may be contacted at:

Printed Name: Dorothy Sherman
Title: Consultant
Company: Nonesuch Records, a division of Warner Communications, Inc.
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Attn: David Bither, Esq.
Email (correspondence): GrayZone@grayzone.com
http://www.grayzone.com
Telephone: 718 360-9941
Fax: 718 552-3028

Date: 31 MARCH 2010

She's just doin her job! Calm down

Please don't persist in adding download links. If you do, my only choice is to block your account if you do. It's nothing personal, you leave me with no choice. I'm interested in having a viable website.

This has been the case with StingyBrim.

Even after I posted this take down notice he re-added the link in another post which I've removed. He can take his battles elsewhere.

Whilst I can sympathise with everyone's differing view points, as has been noted elsewhere, you can go and find the links elsewhere on the Internet and download from there.

Wow Warner Bros, real nice way to handle it. A Take Down notice? Big record companies are so disconnected from their audience. It's really no wonder why people decide to pirate music nowadays.

Oh well, I think you made the right decision brucini. What else were you to do?

Brucini- are you beginning to understand why TBK and their management discontinued their own forum. It's a pain in the ass, and it's usually thankless, but I think you're doing a great job. And, it's always good to remember that the legal shit about the music business has nothing to do with the actual music itself.

@brucini: you say you suspended stingybrim's account, and I can easily see why, and I think that to a point, keeping this forum going should be the priority, even if that means complying with Warner, but i'm curious. is stingybrim gonna be allowed back? he's a pretty important voice in this forum I think, and i'd hate to see him go. but i also understand if your hands are tied.

brucini,

Thanks for running the forum/site. Sad to see that Warner is playing hardball with you when you have been compliant with their requests.

This stuff really is comical at this point. Though I didn't look at it this way before, I do now. Why/how is this shit leaked? No one should have their hands on it except trustworthy people close to the band correct? Its getting out for a reason.
But of course it will be the fans fault one way or another. Why should we want to hear what the band is putting out when it gets out there, from whoever the fuck put it out there. If there are shitty people in the "circle of trust", why are they in there. And why does this seem to happen everytime an album comes out.
There may be legit answers to these questions, I just don't know them. Just a dumb fan who pumps tons of money into the band.