The Google Monopoly :(
After writing twice to Google to ask why our site www.joshandfriends.com.au was banned from adwords and unlisted in all searches I received this automated reply back:
Hello Joshua,
Thank you for your email. I understand that your are unable to see your ads. Below, I have addressed this in detail.
Your ads were disapproved per our ‘Unacceptable Content’ policy. When reviewing your ads, AdWords Specialists found that your ad directs users to a website that either contains (or claims to contain) copyrighted TV shows, movies, or music that cannot be distributed freely online, or your website promotes the availability of such material without the consent of the copyright holder.
At this time, your website does not meet our policies. Please do not submit ads or websites in violation of this policy in the future.
What the???
Come on Google. Name 1 thing that is unacceptable on our site. What is copyrighted?
a) All the music on our site are either produced by local producers like S Dee or promo mixes of the likes of Oliver Leighs where Olly is a Massif DJ and has approval for their tracks.
b) Megaupload has tones of illegal content and they don’t ban them.
We have a free community website designed to support the underground dance music scene. A scene that is often trodden on by the main stream styles and is yet to have a big web 2.0 site to push it.
Seriously….
It’s just laughable. The company that owns YouTube the number 1 site for copyright infringement is picking on a small free community site!
Guess i’ll go spend my money with Yahoo.
