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February 24, 2004
Grey at the Temples
As an act of civil disobedience, spygeek.com is participating in
Grey Tuesday. I am protesting EMI's attempts to censor the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse. It's time we stopped corporations from preventing creativity and artistic expression in the form of sampling and other derivative works.
As part of my support of Grey Tuesday, I'm making the Grey Album available for download for 24 hours, and I turned my site grey for a day.
Update 2/24 10:17PM CST:
I am taking the songs down before I go to bed. I made it about 23 hours and 15 minutes. I even got a cease and desist for my troubles!
I hope everyone who downloaded from me will remember Grey Tuesday as a positive experience.
Posted by Laura at February 24, 2004 10:19 PM
Comments
Hi--My name is Bill Werde and I am reporting on Grey Tuesday for The New York Times. I saw your site listed as supporting Grey Tuesday and I was hoping you might be willing to email me some information for my story, which will run on Wednesday.
You can see some of my recent work at www.werde.org/work.html. If you're willing to email with me, what I'd like is if sometime between 11 am and noon, you could drop a line and let me know if A. you are still taking part in Grey Tuesday by hosting the tracks of The Grey Album for download B. you received a cease-and-desist letter from EMI and if so, if you have any comment about it and C. If you are offering the tracks for download, do you have any sense of how many times the album has been downloaded from your site? Feel free to include any additional comments, of course.
If you would include the proper spelling of your first and last name (in case I use any of your comments for the story) and your website's url, I would certainly appreciate it. I can email you a copy of the url for the story, or you can just check the paper, Wednesday.
Thanks,
Bill
Posted by: bill werde at February 24, 2004 09:11 AM
You yanked it while I was mid download, but thanks for the efforts! You have better versions up than I have found elsewhere.
Posted by: Tom Levesque at February 24, 2004 10:27 PM