What Is Totally Fuzzy?
Welcome to totally fuzzy v3.0 *
As of April 7th 2011 we have decided to steer this blog in a different direction, leaving behind us the aggregation activities that it all started with, and become a music blog, offering legal and full album streams.
In October 2003 when herr k started totally fuzzy, it was the very first mp3 and music blog aggregator. Nowadays, with mega sites like hypem, MOG and elbo.ws and a couple of hundred other - rather poor - attempts at being aggregators out there, there's no point to it anymore. It's getting very close to the absurd situation where there's almost more aggregators than music blogs to aggregate! Circumstances have changed, so we might as well go with the flow. Where mp3 and downloads were once pretty much the only way to sample anything before buying, the current streaming services are a far better way to introduce good music to a larger audience. They offered too great an opportunity to not do something with them. So I did.
Here the Road Map for the near future as I see it. These changes will be implemented gradually.
- We'll gradually be winding down the aggregation activities. No new blogs will be accepted anymore.
- Occasional Daily Digests called "Blogspotting" will replace what was known as "updates" .
- One or more Daily Digests for news from other blogs (planned)
- One or more Daily Digests of Music News (planned)
- We'll gradually shift to scheduled postings to deal with global time differences. (And because I have to for private/professional reasons)
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Restrictions : no new releases, no DVDs
Out of respect for musicians and labels alike we will attempt not to post anything that is not at least two years old in our "blogspotting" feature. That period will probably widen in the future. I use the word "attempt" because it is simply not possible to know everything about all genres in all countries, so if a new release would slip through, that is unintentionally and regrettable.
We have extended the restrictions to DVDs, since those are clearly merchandising and don't have anything to do with any "sample before you buy" policy.
DISCLAIMER:
Totally Fuzzy occasionally lists music blogs, in an irregular feature called "blogspotting". That is not to be interpreted as if we are intentionally promoting piracy. We support and respect the artists, writers, editors and producers who create original content. Since we are in no position to tell other people what to do on their blogs and we have no "policing" powers and since we ourselves do not have anything to do with uploads or anything else that might happen on the blogs that get listed here, it should be clear that if anybody has any problem with any of the blogs that do get listed here they should contact the blog's owners directly, according to DMCA laws and guidelines.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the "DMCA") provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe in good faith that materials we link to infringe your copyright, you (or your agent) should contact that blog directly requesting that they remove the links to the files posted. Since we do not link to any audio files directly, there is no point in anybody contacting us to remove anything.
Totally Fuzzy users are encouraged to enjoy legitimate streamed music and support artists by purchasing the music after sampling it online.
We do not offer any downloads on this site and we don't link to any downloads directly either.
Therefore
Totally Fuzzy cannot be held responsible or liable for whatever may happen on any of the third party blogs and websites that get listed here and that we link to.
We expect all our visitors to behave according to the laws of the country in which they live. Since there are many countries with many different laws and positions in the discussions on copyrights and file-sharing we cannot be expected to enforce our own or somebody else's position that might not be compatible with the laws of the country our visitors live in.
Our visitors should also understand that if they don't support the artists, either by buying the music they like, or by visiting their concerts or by buying merchandise or in any other way, the result ultimately can only be counter-productive and will hurt the music affectionados themselves as much as it will hurt the artists.
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v1.0 was the original, started by herr k on antville.org.
v2.0 was after the move to blogspot
v3.0 is the current one, no more blog aggregation, but offering full album streams.
