User talk:Nametaken12

Your edit to Massive Attack


Unfortunately, it was already spammed a couple of times by a couple of IPs, and deemed unwanted.

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"70GB of live recordings"; are those legal? If you've got any illegal/copyrighted material on your site, I expect it will not be accepted as an External Link. You say you have permission from the label? You will probably have to prove that substantially, as anyone can just say they have permission. $0.02 DP 76764  (Talk) 15:09, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

They are all fan made live recordings with no copyright on them, similar to such sites as Dimeadozen or TheTradersDen. This free sharing of live recordings is all done in good faith with the utmost respect for the band in question and is a million miles removed from illegal sharing of copyrighted albums/material which is widespread across the internet, if that is what you are confusing it with. The band's manager knows about the site and its content and has no problem with this. I won't be attempting to bother them with producing any legal documentation of this just for a Wikipedia link, so if that's what it takes then I'll just drop the matter. I've been sharing freely for over a year with no objections from anyone. I even interviewed one of the members of the band a few months ago, which is up on my site, so I guess this is the best proof I will produce to say the band approve my site.

Do you have any other questions about my fansite? There's more to it than just the downloads. I have done my best to justify the unique resources for the topic Massive Attack which are on my site. These unique resources are beyond the scope of the information/content of the current Wikipedia page for the band. This is why I feel it justifies inclusion as a external link for people who can use the wikipedia page as a springboard to my site to find out more about the band, interact with other fans etc... Of course, I will accept the "linkfarm" or conflict of interest" argument if that is your answer, or any other reason. If you don't see things my way, thats fine. I can understand your just doing your job as an editor Anyway cheers! Nametaken12 (talk) 15:42, 18 March 2009 (UTC)