No. We didn’t get Scans_Daily shut down
Posted By Kathleen David on February 28, 2009
And I want to state that here in the open. If you read Peter’s Blog about what happened, you can see that we did nothing to past what was stated in the thread.
But this being the Internet has not stopped people from ranting and accusing Peter of all kinds of horrible things because someone posted a link to Scans_Daily on a number of the major comic books websites where publishers pay attention to what is being said. I am just clearing my mail box of some of the hate mail I am getting that is rather rank.
Do I think anyone is going to learn anything from this? May be a couple of people who hadn’t really thought about copyright that way or how you treat people on the Internet should be close to the way you would talk to them in person, but those who have a serious hate on for us right now are not going to learn a thing. They will continue to play the injured party in all this and never see their part in what happened as anything but the best of intentions.
What I am taking out of this is that I yet again need to be very careful about what I say on the Internet. I need to state when I am posting something that I liken to going to a pub with a bunch of friends and blowing off some steam to something that I would say on a panel at a convention in public. In some ways I am a public figure or at least a public figure by association which makes this sort of thing a little harder to navigate.
I’m not mad at anyone or annoyed at anyone over this. A little tired maybe but I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.
I am grateful for the support I have been given by people I know and those I don’t who have my back in this mess.
Yeah, fun thread that turned out to be. Even my liking getting into the occasional wildly heated discussion is zeroed out.
Hopefully in a month the flap will have died down and everyone will leave it none the worse for it. Just you two watch yourselves at conventions for a bit. Too many @$$clowns out there like to do dumb, petty crap when things like this are still in the heated stages.
Hang in there – dorks have short attention spans; by next week they’ll be flaming someone else for something they didn’t did…
Dont worry, We are right there with you.
Dont let all the crazies get you down.
Unfortunately, this means that next time there’s a site like scans_daily, you and PAD (or anybody else, really) will have to go about things privately if you want to avoid stuff hitting the fan.
You shouldn’t have to, but this incident just goes to show that mob mentality rules.
Wow. Like the new look.
Wonder what Alex or Ron or Mike or Dave would say about this whole kerfluffle.
Just another example of fans who have way too much time on their hands and think that they are entitled.
Don’t let it get you down.
It’ll pass. Livejournal attracts the good as well as the bad, but the one thing they all have in common is being EXTREMELY passionate. You think this is bad, you should’ve seen what went down when livejournal fought on the slash fanfiction communities dealing with Harry Potter (and other rules. I had just joined livejournal at that time and had no clue what was going on except that the various posters/blogs/communities were in an extreme uproar of yelling for the owner’s heads.
The good news is that it blows over quick. Give it a week or two and they will move on to something else to gripe about.
Jeebus – just discovered and read all the kerfluffle today… just ignore all the idjits – those kinds only live to scream and shovel bile…
Although I disagree that anyone should have to talk privately about these things just because some rabid fanboys got their knickers twisted over getting caught for something that was clearly skirting the legal boundaries of fair use… Kath, Peter, any of us should feel free to speak our minds – especially if truth is on our side…