Another observation (wiki stuff)

[steve]

Hi Martin,

Yeah, very fair point. I'm in favour of diffuse as well. I'm not saying the current situation isn't necessarily sustainable, but just trying to think long term and consider the record company (and BBC) side of things as well. Centralizing links on a single file obviously creates an easy target, contrary to the current situation, as you say.  

I don't know what's best really... All suggestions gratefully received. 

SW 


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
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> >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
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