warning for tripod users

Monty - the one and only

Tripod have begun to sytematicaly delete all of the sites that they are hosting with any thing to do with star trek on them...

No warning is given.

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SantaHoe

Hmm, why?
Copyright issues? Or do they just really hate star trek?

Cloud

I had a radio site with some real audio on it and they deleted it too. Archives of radio broadcasts, okay it was a pirate station but still that's not TOO illegal :-)

Monty - the one and only

It's actually not Tripod, but Lycos that is making these changes. Everything on Tripod and Angel fire is being removed. The following things that will get your site terminated are:
1 - Fan pages - TV series photo galleries, fanfic, anything along those
lines.
2 - Author pages promoting original work.
3 - Pages relating to the disabled
4 - Memorial pages for family or friends (children, husband/wife, pet
memorials etc.)
5 - Family photo galleries.
6 - Anything that seems to carry a copyrighted work. Doesn't matter if the
copyrighte belongs to the page owner or not.
7 - and of course anything that violates their TOS or has even remotely sexually related material on it
It sucks big time, and I don't excatly know why Lycos is doing this, however a number of boycotts have already been started. If your site hasn't been shut down by now, it will be in the next week.

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Cr8or

lol that must be why my porn site is down.
hehe :P

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Cloud

More info from a mailing list:

Not to be an alarmist, but I ran across this on another ML. (I do not
claim any personal knowledge. In this case, all I am doing is relaying
some "interesting" information.) If anyone can counter this, let me know.
I will relay back to the other ML.

>Tripod has done a mass shutdown of fanfic sites, with absolutely no
>warning. I'm on a mailing list for The Sentinel, and the entire night
>has been spent warning authors and trying to save stories that were
>housed at Tripod.

> >I've checked the info being passed around from all my other
> >lists, and
> >here's what I've heard:
> >1. Tripod's affiliate services might also start deleting
> >sites.
> >2. There is a serious call for a boycott of Lycos/Tripod.
> >3. Feel free to pass info on to everyone you know.
> >
> >Quotes From Various Lists:
> >It's not just fandoms, so anyone with a site on Tripod or
> >Angelfire should be wary if they are not absolutely 100%
> >pure vanilla. A friend of mine in the gay community had his
> >book review site TOSed, and knows of a couple other gay
> >and/or kink oriented sites that are gone. Censorship is
> >alive and well and living at Lycos. It's not only Slash
> >sites: a book review site which does nothing to infringe on
> >copyright was pulled, and about 30-50 people's personal
> >pages were pulled. Their crime? They were different in some
> >way (Disabled, different sexual persuasion, etc.)
> >
> >
> >OT: Boycott Tripod and Lycos
> >
> >If Tripod has taken down your site and you have lost
> >material, hope remains.
> >
> >Go to www.google.com . Search for your page(s). When you get
> >a hit, click on "Cached". This gives you the copy of the
> >page Google has saved in its cache, almost certainly before
> >Tripod flushed your page. But you must do this soon, before
> >Google updates its cache.
> >
> >If you have a site on Tripod, don't assume you have been
> >spared because it is still up. Save your pages and prepare
> >to move ASAP.
> >
> >Secondly, BOYCOTT LYCOS. BOYCOTT TRIPOD. Drover has posted a
> >list which I have copied. Yes, it is going to hurt not to
> >use HOTBOT, but I will not endorse the act of destroyers of
> >creativity.
> >
> >Here are known associates of TRIPOD as posted by Drover:
> >
> >Tripod
> >Lycos Communications
> >Angelfire
> >Quote.com
> >Whowhere?
> >Lycos Gamesville
> >Hot Bot
> >Hot Wired
> >html GEAR
> >Sonique Media Player
> >webmonkey
> >Wired News
> >Matchmaker
> >
> >Before you boycott Lycos sites, go to www.tripod.com.
> >
> >Click on Tripod Abuse. Follow the prompts. I picked
> >Copyright Infringement as my topic of abuse. Report how you
> >feel Tripod is abusing its users. Tell them exactly how you
> >feel about Lycos and its homophobic policies and practices.
> >
> >What's really sucky is, after you send your Abuse Report,
> >you go to a page that thanks you for "keeping Lycos clean".
> >Why do I feel I need to shower after visiting them? And are
> >you certain soap and water harms a computer? Maybe just a
> >little cleansing ritual . . .
> >
> >Then hit the net and find a friendly place to play.
> >
> >BTW, Google is a much better search engine than Lycos can
> >ever hope to be.
> >
> >
> >To those of you who lost the sites you built with hard work
> >and love, my deepest sympathies. I hope you all find other homes and
> >don't let the blind disregard of corporate bigots discourage you.
> >

Hobbes

Lycos is on full damage control now.

They even made primetime news here. Appears they deleted tons of sites by accident (or so they claim).

TwoShedsJackson

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Monty - the one and only:
It's actually not Tripod, but Lycos that is making these changes. Everything on Tripod and Angel fire is being removed. The following things that will get your site terminated are:
1 - Fan pages - TV series photo galleries, fanfic, anything along those
lines.
2 - Author pages promoting original work.
3 - Pages relating to the disabled
4 - Memorial pages for family or friends (children, husband/wife, pet
memorials etc.)
5 - Family photo galleries.
6 - Anything that seems to carry a copyrighted work. Doesn't matter if the
copyrighte belongs to the page owner or not.
7 - and of course anything that violates their TOS or has even remotely sexually related material on it
It sucks big time, and I don't excatly know why Lycos is doing this, however a number of boycotts have already been started. If your site hasn't been shut down by now, it will be in the next week.


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Pages relating to the disabled? wtf??!?!?! I had a load of images hosted there and they just deleted the lot saying it was a breach of their tos, i was only linking the odd one here and there. VVankers.

Monty - the one and only

just like this I suppose...

Dear Tripod Member,

We apologize for the removal of your site over the weekend. Due to some technical errors, we mistakenly removed several member sites and are in the process of restoring them. We did not single out you or your site, please accept our apologies, your site has now been restored.

Sincerely,

The Tripod Team

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