scans_daily suspended

[schmevil]

For all members of scans_daily: the community has been suspended for posting copyrighted material without the permission of copyright holders, which is against LiveJournal's ToS. Before you ask:

1) At this time we don't know who made the complaint. But guys, we don't want this to turn into a witch hunt.

2) No, we don't have backups, but we're looking into recovering our entries. ETA: pandanoai made a backup early this month. You'll need this to view it. acroamatica has it mirrored here.

3) rabican set up a backup comm on insanejournal some time ago. If you're in dire need of scans, go here for now. ETA: A while ago, sir_razorback set up a message board for the comm here. comics_scans is another scan comm on eljay. Their rules and culture are a bit different from ours. If you join, be sure to read the userinfo before posting. stubbleupdate has set up noscans_daily. Please join, so we can keep our community together.

4) No, this will not be the end of us. Vive les scans!

5) ETA: Since people are asking about eljay's stance on fair use, from the TOS:

LiveJournal and its designates shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable, or that infringes or is alleged to infringe intellectual property rights. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content. Furthermore, LiveJournal reserves the right to limit access to your journal, if found in violation of the TOS, including without limitation the Member Conduct described below, by removing the journal and related user information from the member directory, search engine, and all other methods used in conjunction with finding LiveJournal's users.

and

[members agree not to] Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party



ETA: Guys, do me a favour and link to this post in your personal journals/blogs/whatever. I don't want people to get misinformation. I'm monitoring the comments and will be around to answer questions.

ETA: Update post here.



The mod team is looking at our options; check this space for updates.

Comments

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Was the entry with the scans open for anyone to see, or Friend-locked to keep it within the community? If the latter he would have to go on what someone else reported as to the size of the scan, who could have her- or himself made an honest mistake, or who could be playing "let's you and him fight".

[buttler.livejournal.com]

Nah, he came in, saw the entry, which had like 4 pages, and had a flamewar with a scans_daily member who was pissed off at his treatment of a favorite character and had expressed it in pretty harsh terms. Then he went and reported to Marvel that people were posting scans.

There was no distinction made of whether it was fair use or not; he just got pissed that people were bad-mouthing him and went out of his way to retaliate through official channels.

[drsevarius.livejournal.com]

It was more than four pages. And the important stuff of the ish, such as Jamie's convo with the priest or the return of that major character, was posted.

Though yeah, maybe he would have acted differently if people weren't calling him a hack who should die in a fire.

[zombiesmut.livejournal.com]

Though yeah, maybe he would have acted differently if people weren't calling him a hack who should die in a fire.

Sad, how some people just can't handle the truth.

[drsevarius.livejournal.com]

If you treat people rudely, you shouldn't be shocked when they treat you the same way.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

What I don't understand is, the man has been on Usenet for over ten years. He was forever on rec.arts.comics, back when it was rec.arts.comics. Harsh flamage is not a new fricking concept to him; I know this because I witnessed it in my salad days. No, it's never fun, but why his reaction is suddenly OMG SO MEEEEEEAN, this I do not get.