[peel] Re: Another observation (wiki stuff)

[Martin Wheatley]

>
>One alternative that I've been thinking about recently is to adjust 
>the structure of the date pages of the wiki, essentially by taking 
>out the download links, sticking these all in a separate file and 
>uploading this to Google Docs or somewhere else altogether, and/or 
>the files section of the mailing list home page at Yahoo (for 
>additional backup). Links updates could then be done via the Google 
>Docs site, leaving that open to all editors (as the wiki is), with 
>the wiki itself used for all other Peel reference stuff (including 
>tracklistings, show writeups, artist pages, etc).

You need to be careful with this.
The point of putting these downloads up individually
rather than to a central site was to avoid creating a big
enough target for the record companies
Putting them all into one easily found file makes it easy for
them to send take down notices to the download sites
You could lose all the downloads overnight
And that's aside from the legal responsibilites there
would then be on the list owner (and all the list members)

Let us remember that the copyright to the contents of these
files is not held by the BBC but by the record companies who
own the rights to the music and 'charity' is their lawyers
middle name as we all know

The present diffuse situation is not the easiest or most efficient to
use but it is probably the safest

martinw