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So now I get an email from Vimeo, where I had moved the original Tim Ryan 2002 documentary trailer, after YouTube pulled it, at the request of the guys holding the cameras at the time, The Fire Factory.  Here’s the email from Vimeo.

Dear blogger interrupted:

This is to notify you that, as a result of a third-party notification by The Fire Factory Ltd claiming that the material is infringing, we have removed or disabled access to the material that appeared at http://www.vimeo.com/1191367.

Sincerely,

Connected Ventures, LLC, on behalf of Vimeo

I have now uploaded the video to Google.  And there are several dozen other video sharing sites which I will use, each and every last one of them, if this game continues.  Here’s why.

I appear in this video.  I wrote it’s script.  I created it.  It was my concept.  I dragged the film crew to the US in 2002 to do it.  After it was shot, I did much of the editing, production, and distribution of the film to potential buyers, in partnership with Jake Shaw of The Fire Factory.  The end result was nothing like this trailer, because Tim Ryan pressured Jake to keep me out of it.  That film, the one Jake now flogs, is not mine.  

In short, this film, the one Jake seeks to keep offline, is MY film.  I even got the music in it donated by a local band.  There isn’t a single copyright issue here.

I have no idea why The Fire Factory, who I thought were friends of mine, would be chasing this video from website to website, having it pulled, other than the fact that Tim Ryan wants it pulled.  Maybe Jake is miffed that my film is better than the piece of shill crap his became after he bent to the will of Tim Ryan.  That’s not my problem. 

I’ve gotten some protesting email from Jake at The Fire Factory, claiming that he’s doing this for copyright reasons, but as I told him, and as I’m noting here, there are no copyright issues.  And if there are, they reside in MY bundle of constitutional and property rights, not some LLC in the UK.  And I will enforce them if I have to.

We can keep playing this game.  The more it gets banned, the more attention it’s gonna get.  And that’s fine with me.  

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