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- 6/2/2007 New Webhost, LunarPages.com is a Pain in the A$$. Complaining about copyrighted MP3 files and the fact that all the files on the site are not referenced on webpages.
- 2/5/2007 Deadstein.com, the website finds a new host and hopefully a new life.
- 7/30/2006 A few minor updates to Deadstein.com
- 7/9/2006 Deadstein pulls some friends togther to rock Short Hills
- 5/15/2006 The Deadstein summer tour is almost upon us.
- 10/26/2004 Scott Gibson jams with Deadstein for the first time in years
- 6/20/2004 Lots of new stuff posted from recent Jams
- 6/10/2004 1998-2000 Deadstein jams added to jams database.
- 5/23/2004 PDF Files from M-Z are Added to Song Database
- 5/22/2004 Individual Jam page improved to include next and previous arrows
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6/2/2007 - New Webhost, LunarPages.com is a Pain in the A$$. Complaining about copyrighted MP3 files and the fact that all the files on the site are not referenced on webpages.
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The webhost we now use to host Deadstein is Lunarpages.com. They have given us great service since we have been using them for the past 2 or three months. They all of a sudden in late May 2007 the started harassing Deadstein.com about hosting copyrighted material.
In actuality, I remember seeing that the company, LunarPages.com, was recently purchased by someone else who promised the same great service. As a matter of fact they even increased the storage of the account I have. They increased the storage from 250GB to 350GB. I was thinking, great a company that has storage to spare. Boy was I wrong, they have storage to spare if you are willing to give you blood sweat and tears. They have made me removed all the copyrighted MP3 files, which I did, they weren't even assessible on a webpage, ironic as it turns out. In addition, they made me modify Deadstein.com to reference on a webpage a link to all the MP3 files stored on the site. In the end this was a blessing because it forced me to figure out how to do this. Now when MP3 files are posted, the website will be able to read the file names and make links to the files directly on the jam pages. This is pretty cool and something that will imediately improve the working of the site.
Provided below is the communication with LunarePages.com regarding this matter. It always seems so easy to to make up a website, but there always something to deal with.
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May 27, 2007
Dear Customer,
During a recent audit on the our server we noticed some part of files uploaded
on your accout are copyrighted material:
/home/deads3/public_html/audio
Can you please provide a document confirming you are entitled to redistributed
them. Otherwise we will be forced to suspend the account for breaking the
following item of AUP http://www.lunarpages.com/aup.php:
"You agree not to infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or
other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to,
the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and
distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted
sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software."
Your account will be suspended in 48 hours if we don't receive a confirmation
from you that you are entitled to redistributed the copyright material.
Thank you for your quick attention.
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If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Best Regards,
Stas Grichkosey
support@lunarpages.com
Phone: 1-877-LUNARPAGES/1-877-586-2772 (U.S. & Canada - Toll-free)
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May 28th 2007 04:24:23
Dear Support:
In response to your request to remove the copyrighted material I have removed all
copyrighted material from the website. The only remaining mp3s in the folder and the website
are generated by live recordings of my band itself (Deadstein). Please contact me if you
have additional questions on this matter but I trust this satisfies your request.
Thank you,
Larry Gindoff
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May 29th 2007 10:23:05
Hello Larry,
Can you please provide the URL to a page on your site that uses files from the
/home/deads3/public_html/audio folder.
Thank you for your quick attention to this matter.
If you have any questions or concerns we will gladly assist you.
Have a great day.
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If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Best Regards,
Stas Grichkosey
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May 30th 2007 07:37:24
The URL that access MP3s in the /home/deads3/public_html/audio folder is:
http://deadstein.com/multimedia.asp. The database that feeds this page still needs to be
updated to eliminate links to the few copyrighted files that were previously there, but the
mp3s are removed so an URL page error occurs if someone tries to select a non-existant MP3.
There is no dedicated page that provides links to all the MP3s. We generally use this
/home/deads3/public_html/audio folder to upload recordings of jam session of my band
(Deadstein) for band memeber to download. I therefore don't have html based links set up to
all the MP3s. I hope this helps.
Contact me if you need anything else.
Larry Gindoff
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May 30, 2007 2:54 PM
Dear Larry Gindoff,
Your Lunarpages web hosting account (deadstein.com) has been
suspended. You need to contact support to have it unsuspended.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
E-Mail: support@lunarpages.com
Toll-Free: 1-877-LUNARPAGES
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May 30, 0007 3:42 PM
Hello,
We have suspended your account in th server endor since you are not responding
to the ticket. Please contactus to unsuspend your account.
Thank you
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Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions
Sanjith Kumar
System Admin Team - JSA I
Phone: 1-877-LUNARPAGES/1-877-586-2772 (U.S. & Canada - Toll-free)
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May 30, 2007 6:00 PM
Reply:
Hello Larry,
Thank you for contacting Lunarpages customer service!
I have looked into your other ticket, and it is still awaiting a system admin
to review the changes made and to unsuspend the account. Unfortunately, on
these types of issues, only system admins are able to review the changes you
have made, and to make the decision to have it unsuspended.
All tickets are handled in the order received, and an admin will review the
changes that have been made, and inform you of their decisions.
I apologize that I am unable to be of further assistance in this matter.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Have a great afternoon!
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Kind Regards,
- Derek Stringer
- Representative, Customer Service.
- support@lunarpages.com
- Phone: 1-877-LUNARPAGES (Toll-free)
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May 31, 2007 6:29 AM
Dear Larry Gindoff,
Your Lunarpages web hosting account (deadstein.com) was
reinstated successfully.
E-Mail: support@lunarpages.com
Toll-Free: 1-877-LUNARPAGES
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May 31, 2007 8:51 AM
Dear Customer,
Thank you for removing copyrighted mp3s and further explanations.
If you have any questions or concerns we will gladly assist you.
Have a great day.
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If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Best Regards,
Stas Grichkosey
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May 31, 0007 8:55 AM
Hello,
Please advise if you would like us to close this ticket. If you have any
questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact lunarpages.com.
Thank you.
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Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions
Anthony Franco
support@lunarpages.com
Phone: 1-877-LUNARPAGES/1-877-586-2772 (U.S. & Canada - Toll-free)
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May 31, 2007 9:42 AM
Please consider this ticket closed at the matter resolved. Thank you,
Larry Gindoff
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Jun 1, 0007 4:25 PM
Hi,
During a recent audit on the endor server we noticed some disk spaced being
used on your account that does not appear to be utilized for your website(s)
operational purposes. As per our Terms of Service and our Acceptable use
Policy shared server space is for business and personal website operations
purposes only and not for unrelated data storage. It appears to us that the
files located in the path below are unrelated data storage:
/home/deads3/public_html/audio
Unless you are able to inform us how these files are in fact required for the
functionality of your website we will have to ask that you please remove them
from the server. Due to the large amount of space this unrelated data storage
is taking up on the server we will need this done within the next 24 hours. If
we do not hear back from you we will have to compress the files and store them
for you to download. This download will be available for a total of 5 days.
We thank you for your cooperation in this matter and apologize for any
inconvenience this has caused.
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Best Regards,
Sarwan Singh Jassi
JSAI-System Administrator Team
support@lunarpages.com
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Jun 1, 2007 6:03 PM
Dear Support:
In response to your question regarding the storage of files on the website not related to
the website please understand this explanation.
Deadstein.com is a website for Deadstein, a my personal non-commercial band and we use the
website for our band to keep a history, tell friends about us and to post, download and
listen to recording we make of our music. By the way, Terez is an off-shoot of this band,
it is the only other non-Deadstein music I have posted on the website. We play music once
a week and generate lots of recordings. These are hisotrical reference recordings of the
band Deadstein on the site for access primarily by band members, since member from the
public are unlikely to want to listen to us, but its posted in an easy way to for band
members to access it. Please note this link below where I access the MP3s of some of these
these recordings.
http://deadstein.com/multimedia.asp
I let users know at the bottom of most pages that they can access any of the music in the
entire collection with a link to www.Deadstein.com/audio.
This music and these recordings are integral to Deadstein and Deadstein.com. I think it is
no different than a company making all old manuals available for all products old and/or new
available on a website even if no one ever accesses them. The point is they may want to
access these files at some point, and when that point comes, the files should be there.
Please contact me right away regarding this response and what I assume will be a positive
resolution to this matter.
Larry Gindoff
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Jun 2, 2007 8:31 AM
Hello Larry,
Thank you for the explanation.
Please, let us know if you have any questions or concerns and we will gladly
assist you.
Have a great day.
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If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Best Regards,
Stas Grichkosey
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Jun 3, 2007 11:48 AM
Dear Customer,
After further reviewing we have noticed that some part of your mp3s from this
folder /home/deads3/public_html/audio are not referenced from an html page.
You must have each of those mp3s referenced from an html page for it to be
related to the operations of his website.
Please, update your http://deadstein.com/multimedia.asp page or remove mp3s.
If you have any further questions we will gladly assist you.
Thank you.
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Jun 3, 2007 1:52 PM
Daer Support:
Does it have to be from an HTML page, or is an ASP page good enough?
Larry Gindoff
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Jun 3, 0007 4:54 PM
Dear Customer,
It doesn't matter what it will be .. HTML or ASP or anything else.
The goal is to have those mp3s referenced from a web page.
Please, let us know if you have any further questions.
Thank you.
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If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Best Regards,
Valery Grichkosey
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