For those who didn’t see QL’s post that went over the line here it is:
*queen lynxana grabs Grizzlor by the shoulder fur and pins him up against the wall
Look Fuzzy Wuzzy, don’t make me out to be a bad girl.. I’m doing this for all of our own good. There is a C & D. I love this site and if you don’t work on it, WB will destroy it. They are already ****ed off about the script being leaked.
I don’t know what more to say than just kiss their ass and comply.
Gee, how much fur do you have and exactly what kind of animal are you?
*fingers can’t find skin, Lynxana is confused…
Ummmm, I’m sure there is skin somewhere,…
*punches and finds more fur
I can’t find a base!
Eiither way, there is no ebay. There is just a few big mouths out there that are ruining it for the rest of us. Until I see a damn clip, I won’t believe crap. If my Tcat film is going to get ruined, I want to see a face damnit! It was supposed to be in 2010, then it got stopped because of leaks, most likely this site, now rumor is 2012, so anymore rumors or crap, I want a face, a voice and a pic. TCL, please don’t ruin this for the rest of us! Come on! I don’t know who your inside source is but I hope he shuts the F**k up, he killed this movie.
- This site ruined it for everyone.
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I want to say this in response to what Chris said about this not being our finest hour. I disagree completely about us making any mis-steps in regards to posting this script.
First of all WB is NOT ****ed off at us. This kind of thing is very routine for them. They followed a step by step process when dealing with this. The abuse department at a company like WB has researchers working for them all day every day who scan google and the web for key terms like “WB leak” “Warner Bros. leak” and they daily get hits back on various properties they own. This all unfolded when screenrant ran the story, we’d had it up for three days before we received the e-mail.
The abuse department sees a story like screenrant’s then will send a form e-mail to the webmaster e-mail on the site, this is done by a junior clerk and is very rarely managed by a lawyer. In this case the guy we dealt with didn’t follow his contact information with any title or designation. I don’t think he’s legally qualified at all, he is a clerk. They copy the VP of the area in on all of these form e-mails and then its the clerks job to chase down a removal of the IP as soon as possible.
At the very same time that a form e-mail is sent to the webmaster, a similar notice is sent to the abuse department of the host. Depending on the host you can see very different reactions. Some won’t obey any requests to remove IP and they are usually offshore and not in the jurisdiction of the IP laws. If you’re with an offshore host like this the abuse department at WB will keep chasing the webmaster as thats the most effective route.
The industry standard for “reasonable timeframe for removal” is 5 business days. We complied within one business day.
Nobody at WB really cared about this. A low level clerk was following their procedure on an incident among hundreds that the department he works in looks after.
It just felt like the world coming down on us because hostmonster has what I believe is a ridiculous policy of pulling down your entire site on a single unsubstantiated e-mail from one complainant. They were irresponsible for not contacting Manny first. Imagine if this website made hundreds of thousands of dollars a day and it was pulled down for something as small as this? hostmonster would be on the hook for lost revenues.
In our case we were down for less than five minutes and the guy I spoke to apologized for not contacting us first, as he should have.
I did my research before making the decision to leave the script up instead of complying instantly with WBs first e-mail. No harm at all has been done in my opinion. This was jsut our first experience like this and there will be more in our future years as the property ramps up again.
Nobody at WB or involved in the movie is upset. Manny can comment if he feels Jerry or Charlie feel otherwise.
By the way Manny, I asked Charlie also if this script was one he’d seen and he also offered to share more concept artwork with us. I don’t think he has his nose bent out of shape at all, didn’t sound like Jerry did either.
Keep this in perspective, we bought the script off of ebay. The cat was already out of the bag, all we did was get ahead of the rest of the media on it. Exactly what any good fan site worth their salt would do. Then we complied within one business day on the cease and desist order. Nobody can fault us for that, and besides what hostmonster did and then apologized for, there has only been a positive result for us. We will possibly have front of the line alerts on news WB puts out about ThunderCats, will enough persistance we can get even more access over time. We will see a lot more traffic in February thanks to this leak and our site name is branded across a script that is being shared across the net like wildfire.
QL is another story altogether and she shouldn’t be lumped in on this. I don’t fault Manny for talking to Purrsia about this. Purrsia used to be one of us and if she hadn’t left on her own she’d have been right here with us enjoying the experience of getting this script to fans first. The fact that she showed such poor judgement herself and blabbed this to a known hot head is purely Purrsia’s own fault. I suggest that based on this one example we should no longer talk to Purrsia or anybody else outside of this group about internal site business.
