Like a White House Intern

    In what is evidently a monthly ritual, the SFG site went down again last night. Instead of getting the usual errors about a crashed site, visitor(s) were greeted with:This was quite the unexpected sight, especially for yours truly The Webmaster. I was eager to find out why I couldn’t even see my own site, but the only information I got was that technicians were working on it and that several sites on that server were down.
    This evening, when I got home, I got an e-mail from my host which read “The Copyrighted UR concert needs to be taken offline immediately.” Having never recorded a concert in Uruguay, I could only assume he meant the 2001 U2 concert from the Palace of Auburn Hills, which I’d been offering in my U2 section. It was funny that this concert was singled out, since U2 lets fans openly record and share concerts. As Bono himself says “My feeling is that it is cool for people to share our music — as long as no one is making money from the process. We tell people who come to our concerts that they can tape the shows if they want. I think it is cool that people are so passionate about our music.”
    Despite that, I was not only asked to remove the MP3 files, I found that the files — and my entire U2 directory — have been removed for me! Not just the audio files but all my photos and HTML pages!
    Hopefully all who were interested in the show already have it and hopefully you can continue to share it. I intend to move the files to another server; and after this kind of shitty treatment, I’ll probably be doing the same with my entire site.