Sheet Music

So....how difficult would it be to go back to what you guys did before, linking the scores on Piano Society?

 

I know, I get the feeling there's something else he's not saying. Why not just remove the allegedly copyright-violating files? For crying out loud, there weren't that many!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!:evil: :!: :!: :!:

(i'm pissed off)

PJF

 

This is for sure a sad thing
Hope the whole project gets revived at some point
Robert,any chance the Piano Society can take over the project?
Also, any such danger awaiting the Piano Society?

 

I'm not sure PS can take it over as it is probably as time consuming as this is or even more. But I could perhaps host it in Sweden where it will be untouchable for the 1923 rule. The EU rule will apply which will mean 1937 for composers and publications.

 

And regarding all the links that now points to just their front text side, I will not do any change for some time to see of they come up with a solution.

 

I hope we all learn a lesson from this: err on the side of caution!

 

I'm still speechless about this. I still can't believe it. That website was the ultimate sheet music resource! It pisses me off that they would shut down the whole site over a few files. That music company must be really greedy if they couldn't just take off the files in question. Argh!!!

 

From what I understand, they not only called for the removal of those certain files, but also for him to put filtering on the site to prevent people from uploading further copyrighted stuff, and I think that's what he was stressing about.

 

If you click on the IMSLP link on our homepage you can keep up to date with what's happening; today he says that IMSLP will probably be back in a couple of months; we shall see.

IMSLP has it's own forum and Universal Edition has entered into the discussion there, very interesting...

http://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=664

 

I find the IMSLP forum discussion mind-numbingly boring. It's painfully obvious who screwed up. Hint: not UE.

 

Dunno, Pete...there seems to be some serious ambiguity as to whether EU copyright laws can actually be enforced on a Canadian organization.

 

IMSLP is down and out for the count!!!!! :shock:

 

Not quite yet.

 

You know, I'm kind of ashamed that when this happened, my first reaction was: Oh crap! I should've downloaded more stuff! But, it is sad to see such a great resource taken off the web.

 

I have to admit thinking exactly the same ... I bet we all did.

 

That was my first thought, too. At least I got all the Scarlatti. :lol:

 

Actually, I have downloaded a LOT before they went down and also, it is still possible to download EVERYTHING. Why? Well, there is something as Google cache and they also cache PDF-files.

For example, run a google search at "Beethoven Sonatas IMSLP" and instead of clicking on the actual link, press the "Cached" instead and Volá! Everything is there. Even better, it is provided by Google which gives 100 times the speed of imslp when you download.

But hurry up! Google cache does not stay cached for more than a month!!!

Google is a great backup isn't it? I have recovered many mistakes from their cache even for Piano Society. I have downloaded and backuped 702 scores so far and my plan is to make a backup for everything present on Piano Society. If they do not come up at all, we still have everything and can link it locally.

 

Hello Robert,

I'm trying to browse Google Cache but i found no way to get pdf files even doing the same search as you... Have you a sample URL?

Best Regards,
Sandor

 

It is easy to find the cached page. But the link for the pdf in that page obviously still points to the original location at http://imslp.org, which does not presently exist. If you click it, you will get the explanatory page rather than the pdf. Apparently IMSLP has blocked hotlinking, or else it would have made little sense to take the site down. And it seems like Google only caches the pages, not the targets of all files linked from that page. Which is probably intentional - even Google can't have the resources to back up the entire world ...

 

I'm not so sure about that. :lol: They're just probably trying to figure out how to make money off of it...