when someone decides to ban or censor something, and that attempt to make something go away, makes it even bigger than ever before, or ever planned.
dj danger mouse's gray album in which he remixed the vocals from jay-z's the black album and the beatles white album. when emi sent a
cease and desist letter to danger mouse the internet community created an intense distribution campaign
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Streisand Effect
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when a large corporation contacts you with the direct instructions to stop doing something and not do it again. generally because they have legal rights to object you are copying or distributing.
letters sent to suprnova.org and many other bit torrent sites hosting torrents of copyrighted material.
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in it most simplistic variant its a single persons journal posted to a website. however the range all the way to corporate sites about new products to several people writing news to many people writing many things.
livejournal.com, blogger.com,
slashdot.com. my weblog entry for the day was about how
blog has sprung up in use with online journals because people were getting them confused with server logs.