Well, the problem with copyright violations is that...well, they *are* against the law. Much like jaywalking is - while it's not often enforced, it is the law. Warner Bros certainly didn't design Minerva Mink to be used in porn all over the internet. While the expanse of the internet allows people to hide the fact they are doing so, don't mistake the idea that you can get away with it for quite some time as the same thing as it being perfectly legal to do so.
Yahoo is a 'advertiser's pay' service as far as I know, which is to say that they get money for providing their service from people who advertise on the yahoo ads you get by using it as their main source of income (am I wrong in saying this? Possible, I've been known to be wrong on a lot of occasions). Thus, pleasing their advertisers is paramount in their eyes. While toon-smut is something lots of us like, we aren't paying the bills. We are just costing them money via bandwidth - as I assume pretty much anyone using them doesn't even so much as click on the adds, much less buy the products shown (unlike my last statement, I'm pretty confident about this one being right). So keeping their advertisers happy is what they are gonna do. If one advertiser gets a bug up their butt about copyright violations of any sort, expect the axe to swing far and wide to please them.
The best solution? Buy a space of the web, set up your own browser area. Maintain it yourself. Buy your own bandwidth. Then, as long as the company doens't directly sue you personally, you can pretty much do whatever you want as far as copyright stuff goes. That does however, require lots of money and even more time - time and money most of us would rather not spend. Which is why Yahoo groups get used.
Short version : It's Yahoo's sandbox. We aren't paying them jack to use said sandbox. If we don't like having them throw us out of their sandbox because they get mad at something we should make our own sandboxes, and find out how fun it is for ourselves to keep the sand clean.
And yes, it sucks that some awesome art got flushed. Then again, I'm not sorry to see some of that art go.
Yours in overopinonated egocentricity,
~Piccillo / Louis
It's probably the toon smut groups, since they contain
corporate-copyrighted characters (and we all know how Disney and
Warner Brothers feel about smut involving their characters... :p ).
gNAW's group, which DIDN'T have toon smut, also got the ax for some
reason, but that's when it was stated that Yahoo will NOT investigate
complaints given about adult groups, since "employees checking
material on adult groups goes against employee policy, so if an adult
group gets a complaint, then that group is automatically in violation
of Yahoo's policies." Crud... that's like throwing a person into jail
because someone claimed they did something wrong > .<
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