July 17, 2006
Bloggers Deride Senator Stevens
"The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes," said Sen. Ted Stevens during a June 28 committee session. Stevens will not soon live down the ridicule in the blogosphere for his explanation of how the Internet works.
For better or worse, Sen. Steven's speech has been the talk of the blogosphere, but now the attention has been focused not on the content of the speech, but on the mysterious disappearance of the speech turned parody song from MySpace. The Washington Post reports:
"Andrew Raff -- a self-described "underemployed law graduate" in Brooklyn with an interest in the Internet and intellectual property -- set the words of Stevens's jeremiad to a folky tune. Raff created a page called the "Ted Stevens Internet Fan Club" and posted the song there.Three days later, Raff got an e-mail from the MySpace administrator, saying the song had been removed because of a violation of My Space's terms of service...One of MySpace's many monitors found the "Ted Stevens Internet Fan Club," saw there was a song on it and assumed copyright violation. Without further investigation, the page was taken down and the e-mail violation notice was sent to Raff...
Alerted to this, MySpace checked out the situation, found the mistake and reposted the song at http://www.myspace.com/tedstevensfanclub ."
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