Oh, dear. Not again.

[mamadeb]

If you have a paid account, keep paying it. Or don't use non-payment as a reaction. Use it as a weapon. "If you continue with this, I will cease paying." Using it as a reaction doesn't help anything. Let the LJ PTB know that you're unhappy.

As for those moving - why? Do you really think that the other social interactive sites are immune? Do you really think that Warner Brothers/Scholastic won't contact GJ or IJ or whoever with the same demands? Do you really think those sites won't fold under threat of lawsuit, too? Because, seriously? That doesn't make sense.

(As for those who are saying, "Another weekend when the HP fen are distracted by a convention!" Find me a weekend this summer when that's not true. Oh, yeah. July 21. :) )

HP fen are being targeted because that's the most visible fandom in the world right now.

Do I support this? NOT AT ALL. Do I agree with their options? NOT AT ALL. Does what I have to say mean anything? Sadly, no. My permanent account has earned out.

I have backed up my fic journal. If LJ folds, mamadeb or mamadeb1963 will find where most people have gone and follow. But I've built up a network I love here, and I don't think I'll get it someplace else.

ETA: Thank you to the people who know the law and responded here.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I have no problem if they'd just reacted to get those pictures removed by the users expediently, say a temporary account suspension of just the account used for posting it until the picture is removed, and further measures only if it is a repeat TOS-violation or infringement or whatever the particular offense is said to be. I don't think a copyright holder can ask for more. I also don't think anyone perceived what to me looked more like a manga-influenced adult Harry in a porn picture with Snape (I haven't seen the Fred/George art) as distributing "childporn" in the legal US sense, or I'd expect they'd be obligated to do more than merely suspending the user (IMO the huge potential for unpleasant ramnifications of posting porn art with visibly underaged characters in the middle of the current climate of moral panic *anywhere* on the internet is far more deterrent than any LJ policies on that matter anyway), so it has to be that they merely think it inappropriate for their service/TOS, which I don't find that problematic either, but they can't be all fuzzy with their rules about when porn crosses into too "icky" for them, but draconian in their reactions. That doesn't go together well.