The drama continues!
As you may well know, our starmember Jojjo agreed to have her pictures only here in the exclusive member section. She's a private person and does no longer want to have her pictures spread around on the internet. The last few hours I spent some time helping her to send takedown notices to other picture hosts to have her content removed.
The BEA also has a few pictures of her on there, so I already made a post there, asking people to no longer post her pictures on there because this is her wish and a proper takedown notice will be sent to the site owner.
My post immediately got removed by Palo, and he sent me the reason by mail. Let me sum it all up:
First of all, he claimed that her pictures are all professional.
she is clearly a professional model who's worked for a number of adult content providers including Score.
She NEVER worked with score, he's making assumptions again.
Still, he has a valid point: the pictures were made professionally, which means that the photographer has copyrights to those pictures as well. It's a shared right in that case.
However, Palomine said that only the photographer has the rights to the picture, not herself, which is not true. The person in the picture will always keep portrait rights.
It doesn't matter in this case, because the photographer is with her and would have wanted those pictures to be removed anyway.
But here comes the fun part, let me quote him:
Furthermore, the BEA Owner takes a very dim view of users who, though possibly well intentioned, bring unwanted legal attention of ANY kind to this website. Your post was removed because it veers into the area of speculating on the legal ramifications... And should it come to our attention that you are responsible for creating legal trouble for the Owner, there will be unavoidable consequences for all involved.
So they don't want to bring unwanted legal attention of ANY kind? Sorry, but you shouldn't have started such a website in the first place. And here's the deal, I was sending them a friendly request, if they'd take it as they should, there would not even be any unwanted attention. Now we have to go all the way through to send a takedown notice... That's the opposite effect!
And the post was removed because it veers to speculation? To Veer + speculation... that's not any evidence that it would at all!
Those guys are just really pissing their pants if for some reason the BEA may get some legal attention... Seriously, we get that all the time.
Maybe because they actually allow people to post illegal pictures. While on our forum, only legal pictures are allowed to be posted...
But wait, there's more!
As a footnote, he posted this:
Please do NOT make posts about the Rules, or do ANYTHING to attract attention to our community, OR make sweeping (and seemingly ill-informed) statements about the ownership of ANY content...
Really? I can't say anything about the rules? Or do anything to attract attention to the commuinity? Sounds an awful lot like the east German Stasi.
Seriously, if someone here challenges our rules, I'd be happy to defend them in public, they'd rather remove it hide it.
After that, Jojjo, Boobring and me met in the BEA chat to see if Palo was there to help us, we didn't get much out of him, he basically ignored me because I have a reputation to stir up things.
After that, I got another message which was actually a threat:
I don't mean to sound like a heavy, but you've got a pretty long history of problematic posts already and we're only permitted a certain amount of leeway before having to act.
Ofcourse I have a pretty long history, and to be honest, I love stirring things up out there, but that doesn't mean that they should immediately ignore whatever I say, because in this case I was right....
And well, another threat to ban me, yay! All because I wanted to help someone out.
...... I hate that place .....