Author Topic: BabyFur.ME admins throw a tantrum over lulz.net linking to them  (Read 1097 times)

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File under the "empty legal threats" bucket:
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BabyFur.ME Admin admin@babyfur.me
   
3:06 PM (3 minutes ago)

As per United States intellectual property and copyright law this is herein a request to remove protected content from the domain lulz.net.

This request is being sent and is intended for the private owner or legal representation of lulz.net. If this is not you, please disregard this message.

The administration staff and owner of BabyFur.ME are demanding that:

A) The BabyFur.ME logo be removed, immediately, from your server(s) and no longer displayed at: http://lulz.net/furi/res/2049907.html
B) You not allow, at any time, any distribution of content only accessible by registered members of BabyFur.ME. This would include, but is not limited to, re-posting of member's content feed items and media.
C) You not store on your servers any BabyFur.ME protected intellectual property.

We are also requesting that you do not allow links to BabyFur.ME, under any circumstances. Additionally we are requesting that you remove any existing links to BabyFur.ME.

This correspondence is being sent as a warning; If you fail to honor and/or maintain our demands/requests, we will proceed with legal action.

This message is intended only for the viewing by the addressed recipient and applicable legal representation of lulz.net. This is not a public statement and is considered private communication. This communication is not for public distribution except at the discretion of the BabyFur.ME Administration staff.

If you have questions and/or would like to confirm your compliance; you may respond directly to this email.



OH LOOK I'M REDISTRIBUTING THEIR LOGO AND LINKING TO THEM

THEY MIGHT SUE VIVISECTOR GUYS

(seriously, have people not learned that this kind of thing just plain doesn't work?)
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Re: BabyFur.ME admins throw a tantrum over lulz.net linking to them
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 06:02:26 pm »
It's like being back in the early 2000s and reading Something Awful's repeated threats from people who similarly misunderstand the Internet.
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Re: BabyFur.ME admins throw a tantrum over lulz.net linking to them
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 08:40:00 pm »
If linking to content was illegal all of Sweden would be in jail right now. [copyright law doesn't protect linking to copyrighted content in Sweden, for now]