Fanflix official policy, and the dumbest entitlement I've ever heard.

[tzikeh]

10-23
Continuing Allegations of Stolen Video Footage. If anybody would like to report video stolen from them, please email me at webmaster@fanflix.com with which videos were stolen from and which videos they were put into, along with a link to your video, and the name of the flicker who swindled your work. I do not allow plaigarism on this site, as I severely fear a lawsuit.

WRITE TO HIM. Send him links to vids. Show him proof. ashinae, rosemerry, (Elke - can you alert them to this?) anyone who can show that their work was ripped off, or who cares that work was ripped off. Ashinae did a second-by-second breakdown of her vids, which is very smart.

The dumbest entitlement I ever heard? In a thread on one of ashinae's earlier posts on this subject, the offending vidder said, basically, that she can't make vids with her own footage, because she has no way of getting the footage into her computer. If she can't find the episode or movie or whatever online, then the only way to make the vid is to take the clip she needs from another online vid.

In other words, since she isn't set up to vid without stealing, she steals.

Instead of, you know, NOT FUCKING VIDDING. She's entitled to vid, isn't she?

Isn't she?

Holy. Flying. Fuck.

Comments

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

The stupid never ceases, does it?

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

What is even dumber is that. I'll bet most of the vidders in question would have been willing to help her figure out how to get original footage. All she had to do was ask the question. There are sources for this stuff.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that statement was put up by the FanFlix.com webmaster in response to emails from Ashinae and/or Elekdragon, so they ought to know about it already... but per your request I'm emailing the four vidders who have their email addresses in their LJ userinfo or their websites now with the link to this post, and cc'ing you on it.

I don't know how to reach rosemerry other than commenting in her LJ, which I'm also going to do.

As to Desiree's messages and comments over in those threads? Her story changes. I think she's just bullshitting, but her "friend" Janine either supplied Desiree with some of the stolen clips, or Desiree let Janine use the vids which Desiree claims as her own as source to butcher to make Janine's vids. Some "friend", eh? And Janine is one of the more vocal whiners about the "spam" over on the minicomments board on Risen.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

I do have to say that as far as I know, people have been sending him evidence since 10/23, and he has not responded to many of them. So I'm not sure whether to be pleased or not by the fact that the statement is there. The vids that were removed are marked, but it's not noted why anywhere on the vids pages, only on the news page.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Since 10/18, here! I sent him my original post the day I posted it.

What I have to wonder, considering his use fo the word "allegations", is -- wasn't a vid-by-vid, clip-by-clip breakdown ENOUGH?

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

I wrote to fanflix and did a quick "Thank you," since I don't have all the vids to do scene by scene comments.

[klia.livejournal.com]

It's great that fanflix.com took down the vids, but, um, why is there no explanation of what's happening?

And still no confession on Desiree's site, either. Geez, that chick is unbelievable.

[zoerayne]

I do not allow plaigarism on this site, as I severely fear a lawsuit.

This makes my brain hurt. As in, why would plagiarism make him more vulnerable to lawsuit than just hosting vids? Not that I want to dissuade him from a harsh stance against plagiarists, but WTF?

On a related note, anyone who wants to use this icon is welcome to share it.

Writing to Fanflix

[emyrys.livejournal.com]

WRITE TO HIM. Send him links to vids. Show him proof.

I wrote to the webmaster at Fanflix this morning. I'm not a vidder, but wrote as a fan of vids who is concerned that talented people whose vids I adore will remove them from the net to avoid being stolen if this continues (and also I feel very strongly that stealing and lying are just plain WRONG.

I also pointed out that if he wants his site to have any respect at all from serious and talented vidders he needs to publicly resolve this and soon. (I included pointers to the URLs that outline the stolen clips and vids).