--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Louis/Pic" <picmail_at_s...> wrote:
> 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
Heh, I know what ya mean. I never cared for toon smut myself, but
some of the axed groups didn't have any at all, which kinda made some
of the fans wonder if there's some hater going around trying to start
trouble (doubtful, but some people keep options open).
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Received on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 16:49:01 CDT