Fwd: Treeing 7/17/77? Be Careful!!

["Jeff Strawman" <jeffstrawman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had an old domain yanked from me by my hoster when I had some preview 
tracks on it of "Walking Into Clarksdale" a few months before it was 
released. No slap on the hand by my hoster. They said they couldnt give me 
back the domain. So I got a different one later on.

- -Jeff
Achilles Last Stand - The Led Zeppelin Website
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>From: Grant Burgess <grantburgess2001@xxxxxxxx>
>To: FBO Mailing List <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Treeing 7/17/77?  Be Careful!!
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:52:14 -0500 (EST)
>
>Just a few words of caution may ne noted here after
>the events of last week to Project Ballentine. I
>personally recommend that we do not tree the Seattle
>77 video on this list when it gets out.
>
>While I am making a wild guess on what may have
>motivated Warner's attack of harrasment on Chris's
>website and tape tree page, it may be linked to the
>Earls Court video tree on this list. We all had a
>pretty good idea that if the Earls Court video got
>out, Jimmy's lawyers may get busy.
>
>While Jimmy has stated in the past he doesn't mind
>fans collecting live material, he has always stated
>that he gets upset with material from the vaults
>getting out. Keeping this in mind, it would not be
>inconsistent for Jimmy's lawyers to try to stop the
>distribution of these tapes.
>
>The last time we heard of Jimmy's lawyers getting a
>letter out was over the Page/Crowes video's of the
>Greek Theater. This was because the video's were of
>the same show of a forthcoming live album. There were
>no orders of cease and desist on the Roseland videos
>of Octber 12-14, 1999.
>From what I have also heard, a cease and desist order
>was given to someone a few years ago to someone who
>was selling via mail order the P/P Irvine Meadows pro
>shot video. This person was offering other P/P videos,
>but this was the only one that was being hassled over.
>
>Have any other Zep related sites been given a cease
>and desist order recently?
>
>I am being cautious, but I do see a pattern of
>behavior here. Atlantic's order may be justified to
>them and to Jimmy's wishes that material from the
>vaults do not get openly distributed.
>
>It is just a gut feeling to me, but I don't believe
>that treeing the video on this list would be a great
>idea. if this list was to become a target of
>Atlantic's witch hunt, distributing stolen material
>would not look good when we try to defend our actions.
>In the case of audience recordings, we can use Jimmy's
>words as a defense of consent.
>
>My advice would be to get the video from sources
>outside this list. I would try to discourage people
>from posting the have the tape for trade. Also to be
>discourage would be people posting that they are
>looking for the tape. The only posts about the tape
>should be a review and the review should not tell
>people how to get the video.
>
>Just my $.02 on the matter!
>Take Care
>Grant