What's Takara Tomy's and Hasbro's stance on 3rd party bots?

[griffin]

Well, it looks like Hasbro just started caring. TFW2005 is down right now, because it "got hit with several DCMAs from Hasbro at around 3am this morning. Apparently the site had been "Overenthusiastically promoting products not licensed or produced by Hasbro that were protected properties." Things are not looking good right now. That's all I can say at this time." Big news.

Where were the quotes from? Is there a source you can link to, or just private messages making it through the grapevine?

[Oberon Sexton]

Guess who's back. Back again. Shady's back. Tell a friend.

[griffin]

In other words, TFW are back up.

I wonder why they didn't give some warning to being offline during the transfer.

[griffin]

Where were the quotes from? Is there a source you can link to, or just private messages making it through the grapevine?

Never mind, I found someone quoting a post that doesn't exist anymore.

It's good to hear that this wasn't the end of TFW, and my suspicious mind over the timing certainly made today very interesting.

I think they moved to a Canadian server (someone with tech skills may be able to tell for sure), so if that is true, I wonder if they moved it after threats by Hasbro, so that Hasbro then can't use the more powerful American laws to shut them down.

Either way, they didn't remove any 3rd Party stuff from their news page, so either it was never an issue, or now they are located the site so that they can keep doing it.

[Trent]

There's nothing quite like some wild speculation thrown around in the absence of facts. If nothing else, it lets our imaginations run wild

[Sky Shadow]

Oh - well that's a lot less exciting. It was quite quick-witted for someone to make up the DCMA thing. Very weird that they didn't warn people it was going to be down. Sorry for the confusion!

[Lint]

Well that was a lot of huffing and puffing.

I'm only a TFW visitor on an as-needs basis but I noticed they now that a news feed option that excludes 3rd party stuff. Is that new? It's not the default though.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Nah, that's been there for ages. They've got one that excludes Movie news too.

Re. the DCMA thing, I checked out their Facebook group last night and there was a comment from someone claiming a mate of theirs was an admin at TFW, and their friend had told them about the DCMA thing. So yeah, PMs through the grapevine.

[Tfiguy]

Does anyone know if Repro labels are officially liscenced?