Great job guys, now we're getting sued AGAIN. This time we've angered the wrong group and have sullied the good, innocent names of various people who eat their own poop and want to be thrown inside a garbage bag so other people can punch them a lot. No, I'm not making that part up; this is the internet.
quote:
From: James H jamesh@fetlife.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:11 PM
To: lowtax@somethingawful.com
Subject: Copyright infringement notice

Dear Mr. Kyanka,

On Oct. 20, we emailed you about a thread on your site that was created with content in violation of our site rules and infringing upon the copyright of our company and several of our members. We asked you to take down the thread and provide us with information on a list of your members in accordance with your site rules. We have received no response.

On Oct. 24, Zack Parsons, your assistant editor started up another thread. This thread also contains considerable imagery from our web site. Moreover, since this is listed as one of your articles and since it was posted four days after our original letter to you, this constitutes willful infringement upon your part. Thus, we are writing to you to avail ourselves of our rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This letter is a Notice of Infringement as authorized in § 512(c) of the U.S. Copyright Law. We wish to report an instance of what we feel in good faith are instances of Copyright Infringement. The infringing material appears on the Service for which you are the designated agent.

Since you have posted this after our earlier message to you, this is a willful infringement of copyright. Statuatory damages for willful infringement can be up to $150,000

1. The material which we contend belongs to BitLove, INc., and appears illegally on http://www.somethingawful.com are the following:

All images in the threads “Fetlife.com: "Whats the best food to eat so your shit would taste better?"” and “Beating a Man in a Trash Bag and Other True Stories of Fetlife.com“

2. The material appears at the following website addresses:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3443936
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/new...rses-toilet.php

3. The material appears on my website at these addresses:
http://www.fetlife.com

4. My contact information is as follows:
James Huesmann
137-4438 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6R 4R8
Jamesh@fetlife.com

5. I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

6. The information in this notice is accurate, and I am either the copyright owner or I am authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

I declare under the perjury laws of the United States of America and Canada that this notification is true and correct.

Signed: James Huesmann on Oct. 26, 2011
So looks like we're gonna have to make some new rules for the forums:

1) It is now illegal to make fun of people who eat poop (both theirs and others').
2) Do not talk about people who want to get punched inside garbage bags.
3) Please never make fun of the site http://www.fetlife.com, I repeat, the site http://www.fetlife.com. Don't do it now or ever. http://www.fetlife.com

Thanks in advance,

- The management (WHO DOES DEFINITELY NOT EAT POOP AND IS NOT INSIDE A GARBAGE BAG BEING PUNCHED)