OFF: RIP UWP lyrics archive

[Paul Mather]

I read recently on alt.fan.frank-zappa that the huge UWP lyrics archive
has now closed its doors thanks to pressure from the music industry.  I
guess we can bury it next to OLGA (On-Line Guitar Archive) in the "Great
Services Cut Down In Their Prime" plot of the Internet Hall of Fame
cemetary.  I've reproduced the UWP announcement below.  Now how does that
Hawkwind song go again, "...all we do is get screwed up on other people's
floors."  Hey, where's there a decent lyric archive when ya need one?...  :-)

Mourning the loss of a damn fine resource,

Paul.

obCD: Blue Oyster Cult, _Nail You Down_

e-mail: paul at csgrad.cs.vt.edu                    A stranger in a strange land.

---------- Forwarded announcement ----------
Sorry, the Lyrics Page and the Lyrics FTP archive is no longer available
for public access. The University of Wisconsin was contacted by
representatives of the music industry. On the advice of legal council,
we have closed the archive and we are investigating other means to make
this data available.

It was fun while it lasted & thanks for your support and kind words.

Before you ask:

   No, I cannot make the entire archive available in one huge file.

   Sorry, I do not know of any sites that may still have a copy
     of the archive.  If they are still out there, the University of
     Wisconsin and I (Dave Datta) have no connection with them.

   I have no resources or wish to fight lawyers on my own and I will
     not be fighting this. I do not want to be tied up in court for the
     rest of my natural life.

   I am exploring ways of making the files available with the
     blessings of the music industry. Please don't write letters to
     musical organizations on behalf of the archive.

-Dave Datta, lyrics at archive.uwp.edu
     (Former maintainer of the Lyrics archive.)

I would like to thank Michael Herf & Dave Meltzer for all their work
writing and maintaining of the web pages and search engine. Without
their help, the archive would not have been as successful as it was.