It seems our old friend lvlvlv1 has been busy. Not only has he (I think it’s a he if that’s him on his site) been posting fraudulently as two different people (same IP 98.77.31.17 , adsl-77-31-17.mia.bellsouth.net – dead giveaway!) on this blog in defense of himself, but he just sent this lovely little note from his hotmail address:

Subject: RE: GODADDY Profanity Policy
From: “lvlvlv1″ lvlvlv1@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, August 5, 2010 3:34 pm

I am asking this nicely in the hopes that it gets resolved before I report this
posting to GODADDY. According to the GODADDY “General Rules Of Conduct #4″, where it
says: “You will not use this Site or the Services found at this Site in a manner (as
determined by Go Daddy in its sole and absolute discretion) that: promotes,
encourages or engages in hate speech.” The link in question is located here:
(http://www.radioclashblog.com/archives/2010/07/23/lvlvlv1-talentless-mashup-stealing-plagiarist/)
I am the person the site/link is talking about. The site/link is using profane/hate
language and name calling to the responders and I would like title and story removed
or modified please. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Nice. Thing is he is actually claiming my remix work, my mashups as his own, and Pomdeter’s too, and probably others. So he is stealing (claiming credit for things he didn’t do) and a plagiarist. I don’t think ‘telling the truth’ fits under ‘Hate speech’ do you? (even talentless – well if you had talent you’d not need to steal – but I took that off since he MIGHT have some talent somewhere. Even if it’s just a talent for stealing other people’s work and then threatening them when they complain. That’s a talent I guess?)

Reporting me, well I might have minor interruption to the blog or have some explaining to do (doubtful), but I pointed out to him that GoDaddy might tip off Google over his Blogspot blog – and they tend to just delete copyrighted stuff and ask questions later.

I’ve slightly toned down the post reverted it back – Godaddy have been totally quiet, I wonder why? but the accusations stand…and if he has a problem with that then take it up with GoDaddy and see where that gets him – or change the credit. I think changing the credit and being honest about the mashups he didn’t make MIGHT be easier?

We’ll see. So if this site goes down – which would be temporary, I have a feeling it won’t I need to talk to my host – then blame the wondrous and multi-talented lvlvlv1 (according to his mother).

Update: check out this laughable blog by the man himself. I notice he chose the example to be the one where he has actually done something to someone else’s mashup (added some Star Trek samples – woo) – if you want to hear Martinn’s side of it he’s commented here. Not Pom’s or my mashups which are exactly – digitally -the same – not recreated, rebadged.

Thing is – he’s NOT recreated my mashup. It’s exactly the same. Production is the same – even the rare spoken word samples I think are in there. The likelihood of him using exactly the same sources, in exactly the same way (reordering and restructuring, looping and all), exactly the same production (glitching, reverb etc) with exactly the same plugins with exactly the same settings is almost nil. And Pom has compared the waveforms  side by side for his mashup – it’s a copy. So the recreation argument is bull.

Also his YouTube is suspended (someone else taking umbrage?) and doesn’t link his Hotmail anywhere from his blog which also has no comments (I would have commented on his blog first if I could) – so rather hard to ‘contact’ him. I wonder why? Maybe it’s because he’d get quite a few people saying ‘hey! That’s MY work!’ on his blog.

And I still think he’s a talentless kitten.

(video via the lovely DJ Paul V.)

Proposition 8, the one against gay marriage deemed unconstitutional! Woohoo!

Yes I know this won’t be the end of it, appeals and Supreme Court blah blah blah* but one step in the US towards treating people equally – in a way that’s behind a lot of the world I hasten to add, including here where civil partnerships have been legal for years. Hopefully the land of the free eventually extends that freedom to it’s LGBT members too.

* and I won’t mention the polyamorous caveats I have, promise

Certainly the police in the UK and the US seems to have lost a lot of trust, to the point that recorded evidence (like the CCTV tape at the shooting of Jean Charles de Menenez?) goes missing and it seems that criminal cases such as the one against PC Simon Harwood who assaulted and most likely killed Ian Tomlinson at the London G20 get intentionally buried and stonewalled – justice is not being done.

But the main evidence in the Ian Tomlinson case was video; the police know this and are trying to get people to not record them, even using privacy laws in a totally incorrect manner (police operating in a public space cannot have an expectation of privacy!), as in the Graber case in the US above …but without say the Rodney King footage, or the BART killing of Oscar Grant by Johannes Mehserle, or the Ian Tomlinson footage – who watches the watchers?

My thoughts are this – if we had video or photographs in the case of Blair Peach, some justice or at least identification of who killed him from the SPG (who became TSG eventually) might have been proven (although it is admitted they killed him, but as the other police officers are lying to protect their comrades 31 years later Blair will probably never going to have justice). Its pretty well known it’s most likely Officer E who is Alan Murray, apparently you can kill someone as a police officer (or lie about who actually did) and get a comfy gig as a lecturer in Corporate Responsibility at Sheffield University. I wonder why the students there don’t care? Certainly in my days at Sheffield Hallam they’d be protests and meetings).

The Graber footage is less than ideal; the person was acting in an infantile and dangerous manner pulling wheelies at high speed, and the muted audio…but the 16 years threatened jail time for recording a police officer (accidentally it seems, unless he was planning a confrontation with the law which I doubt) is extreme and brings up problems with expectation of privacy laws being used to protect police and state from monitoring. Also worrying is the trend of not indentifying yourself; that cop was lucky Graber didn’t also pull a gun faced with a unmarked car and unidentified policeman with a gun (it has happened in the past policemen have been shot and killed when plain clothed and unidentified even by their own force) – which follows through to the UK hiding of badges, or the plain clothed SO12 officers who lied about indentifying themselves to Jean Charles de Menenez before they shot him.

And with the battle over FITWATCH (I note that the police are failing to prove that Forward Intelligence Team surveillance of protesters – peaceful or otherwise, thus putting them all into the ‘suspected’ category and inhibiting protest – is lawful) there is a ‘them vs us’ attitude that the police and the state are allowed to film and monitor us – but to do same means you get kept without charge for days, brutally hog tied, abused or insulted, or told that ‘you can’t film here’ which is wrong unless it’s private property. But if the watchers have nothing to hide why are they so scared of being filmed? Is it like with the removal of shoulder badges, or indeed jumping out of an unmarked car, you start to wonder what are they hiding – and why should they hide it if they are indeed the bastions of law they pertain to be?

And for those who say ‘one bad apple’, in the Met and especially Territorial Support Group there seems to be an orchard full…a gang mentality produces a gang response, and in the violent G20 and Climate Camp footage, harassing photographers, journalists, protesters, hiding evidence and not grassing their ‘bruvs’ seems to be nothing more than the SW1 New Scotland Blue Bovver Boys to me.

From Veer’s 2007 “Activity book” catalog.

I don’t really talk about my work here, but I work as a freelance designer/animator. And while all my clients are lovely wonderful people, especially the ones reading this there are a few truths to the above image and the video below – and indeed the whole of the Clients From Hell website where these both are taken from…many hours on that website, grimly chuckling. I’ve been there…but not with YOU dear customer. You’re perfect!

Also check out this video on how private companies and corporates would redesign the stop sign…painful truths in there…

And this one on the idea that clients can pay less which wouldn’t fly in the real world:

Name and Shame time: there’s a mashup thief called lvlvlv1 and also DJ White Knight about claiming false credit for making mashups and remixes inc my Go Your Own Steinway mashup.

This happens from time to time, sad and pathetic people try to enlarge their tiny e-Penis by stealing other people’s work and claiming it as their own. Yes I don’t own the rights either; but when all you have is credit for making a combination work it’s cheeky for someone to come and claim it as their own – especially when you’ve done all the work! Note this is exactly the same mashup, he’s not remade it, it’s the same production to my ears.
…
8)Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer & Andy Moor vs Motorcycle (Disco Trance Mashup)
9)Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way lvlvlv1 (Trance Mix)
10)Ronski Speed & Gareth Emery vs Ferry Corsten, Super8 & Tab (Trance Mashup)
…

More galling – and the reason I’m calling him out on this, usually I ignore stuff like this – is the asserting that it’s trance. Its NOT TRANCE FFS. Fred Falke is not trance (french house), Fleetwood Mac is not trance (MOR rock), even Eric Prydz on a bad day is not trance (club house). Steal my mashups BUT NEVER EVER CALL THEM TRANCE, DICKWEED. I have never done, and will never do, a mashup or remix using trance. I hate trance.

So this lvlvlv1 = a complete tw*t, go make your own mashups and remixes, and stop nicking other people’s work. So now I’ve just splatted your name all over google as a talentless cock who plagiarised other people’s work (you really should enable comments), consider yourself slapped.

Thanks to pomDeter for the tip, he’s nicked one of his as well, and a few others possibly. And one of Martinn’s – see the comments for their take on this (I am not alone in having work stolen by this man).

And see the follow up post which should be linked below where he reported me for ‘hate speech’ for calling him talentless. Well if you have to steal other people’s work, then yes you have no talent.

EDIT: Restored to it’s former glory as surprise surprise, despite his futile ePenis threats and puppet accounts (see below) GoDaddy didn’t pull the plug despite his pathetic butthurt email. Maybe less of the dodge bleach job next time, lvlvlv1? It must be eating through to your brain.