BOLS frontpage and Faeit gone?

[RealGenius]

The 3D renders of products on Kickstarter aren't the same as a company making actual models and selling them around the world, PP is their biggest competitor and they're still making mixed plastic and metal kits, which shows how far behind they are in the technology.

I'd say Wyrd is doing pretty well with their 3D renders and high quality plastics.

[Wolfshade]

sounds good to me, PMs are best though, don't want the boys involved

Good job I am a man not a boy.

[Psychosplodge]

This goes for My Little Pony colouring books too. And I'm pretty sure Hasbro sends out DMCA's to offending websites.

There's MLP colouring books? Why are we still discussing GW. Where can I get these magical things?

[Arkhan Land]

I read the Prometheus script while it was in production and it didn't stop me from going to see it in theaters.
I read the most recent Batman script while it was in production and I didn't stop me from seeing it eventually at home from a torrent...

leak info on a product can go both ways, considering the smaller market and greater cost of GW products I understand their viewpoint, but...

BOLS is a site that has done a great deal for maintaining interest in an analog game still chugging in a digital age, and I think GW owes it some money

[Gotthammer]

There's MLP colouring books? Why are we still discussing GW. Where can I get these magical things?

[URL="http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/browse.cfm"]http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/browse.cfm[/URL]


Wolfie, it's "the boys", not boys



Not surprised Faeit got taken down, he's been posting huge slabs of rules and scans lately, you could probably piece together the High Elf army book to a playable standard with the info up there recently.

[Psychosplodge]

[URL="http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/browse.cfm"]http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/browse.cfm[/URL]

OMG!
I need some crayons...

[RealGenius]

Grow up, get with the times, have a little respect for basic laws...

Also, GW is not the Devil you want it to be.

Basic laws like [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use"]Fair Use[/URL]? It is news that GW is releasing a new item. News is covered under Fair Use in the US (and other similar laws worldwide). Now I'm sure some of Faeit's posts go beyond fair use, but most don't.

And GW is not the devil, they are a company, not some anthropomorphic thing. They just are there to make a profit. But that doesn't mean that they are all good and righteous either. They have repeatedly been shown to go beyond "IP protection" to the realm of [URL="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/trademark-bully-thwarted-spots-space-marine-back-online"]copyright bullying[/URL].

Is GW abusing Google's implementation of DMCA notices that automatically remove content from the web? Probably, but they aren't the only ones. Google itself acknowledges that they get plenty of [URL="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/faq/#compliance_reasons"]"inaccurate or unjustified"[/URL] take-down requests. It wasn't that long ago they created the DMCA counter-notification form so DMCA take-down recipients could respond.

GW knows that they can just pound away at the DMCA form and remove content. They also know that many of the small bloggers don't have resources to fight a Fair Use suit. Does it make GW the devil? No. Does it turn away a portion of their audience each time they do? [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect"]Yes[/URL].

[Docmani]

GW definitely has the right to file a DMCA complaint with Google.

I would be more ticked off at Google for being so spineless.

These sites would be better off hosting off-shore and pay for the hosting with bitcoin. At least make GW work for it....

In any case, GW is definitely harshing my rumor-buzz.

[Wolfshade]

Wolfie, it's "the boys", not boys

It's discrimination and I sha'n't stand for it! Unless you agree that I don't count as "the boys".

Basic laws like [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use"]Fair Use[/URL]? It is news that GW is releasing a new item. News is covered under Fair Use in the US (and other similar laws worldwide). Now I'm sure some of Faeit's posts go beyond fair use, but most don't.

USA & English & Welsh "fair use" law is startlingly different.
You can report something without showing it, for instance we can report that a French magazine has published photographs of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge topless without showing those images.

As soon as you start reproducing any copyrighted material you have to be very careful that you do not overstep reporting the story and start reproducing the story.

[RealGenius]

It is kinda funny that we are all assuming this is a copyright/take-down when I don't think that has been definitively shown. (BoLS doesn't have any notices listed at chillingeffects.org, so taking down the site seems harsh for a first offender.)

@Wolfshade, True, but assuming it is copyright, blogspot.com is organized in the US and subject to their copyright laws, so English and Welsh laws don't come into play. And the mechanism most discussed is a DMCA take-down, which isn't an English or Welsh law.