Uploading Etiquette (”I don’t care about your dll’s”)

(In John Cleese’s voice):

When uploading files, be mindful of your fellow Bloopers.

While the MyBloop community may be interested in your high quality Powerpuff Girls picture collection, it may not have the same inclination towards a backup of your entire Windows folder. So please, be so kind as to make those Powerpuff-less files private.

One should also keep in mind that while having a backup copy of your Windows Vista installation DVD on MyBloop could come in quite handy, it may draw the attention of angry middle-aged men wearing expensive suits. These gentlemen are more formally known as lawyers. So please, keep files that may draw the attention of those gentlemen private.

Finally, one should remember to use common sense when sharing one’s files. Uploading the document where you store all of your passwords and bank information could be a life saving enterprise, but you most certainly wouldn’t want it to save the lives of the other 17,000 MyBloop members as well. Therefore, please remember to keep your personal files private.

Thank you all for your attention. We hope you have a jolly good time on MyBloop.

In all seriousness, while the Bloop team is incredibly happy that you’ve all embraced MyBloop with such enthusiasm, we have to remember that there are still a lot of people who do not understand that the best way to get an artist some sales is to get them heard, seen or read by as many people as possible. So be smart about what you share, make sure that you either own the copyrights to it or you have the copyright holder’s permission.

We sincerely believe that anything you upload to MyBloop is your property, and yours alone. We merely provide a service. But we have to protect our users best we can, and for everyone’s benefit, it’s better if no one draws the attention of this kind of organization (or, as our friends at P2PNet like to call them, the “entertainment cartels”). So if you’re not sure whether you can share a file or not, please play it safe, make the file private.

We will, in the near future, implement features that will prevent drawing attention from prying eyes, all while allowing you to do a lot more with your files. We are certain that they will be embraced by the community and will strengthen it as well. I can’t give away too many details now, but we are doing our best to implement them as fast as we can. Stay tuned…