Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5683044-20170316213243

Hi, this is Driller from the administration team.

I have been receiving complaints from users regarding the message "You stole (asset name)". For nearly three years, we have been following this group of computer hackers who go by the given name of Team Crimson, which is associated with Anonymous. Please stay away from these, as their main target is Drillimation and this site too. For us, we've thrown a bit of revenge at them.

Who are these hackers respectively?
Whenever you base your materials out of others' works, these hackers tend to trick you by saying "you stole (asset name)". When you see this, do NOT reply to anything in that suspicious comment.

For a long time, members of the Namco fanon community have been abusing a law called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in an attempt to take down enormous swaths of content on the and Dream Fiction Wiki, commonly using automated software that ignores Fair Use rights and misidentifies your content as copyrighted.

One of those suspects, who is the main perpetrator of this, was accused of abusing the DMCA to indiscriminately remove Drillimation-related content from the GoAnimate Wikis. No driller on the site shall ever dare to speak his name or mention it, simply call him You-Know-Who or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, similar to Lord Voldemort.

What can I do to fight back?
Don't let Team Crimson turn both the and the Dream Fiction Wiki into a graveyard for free speech! First off, they often hand out these comments as they are simply in direct conflict with copyright law. If you've been abiding by Fair Use which is the majority here, then simply move on. Anyways, I post the disclaimer on both sites (find it under the Community tab of the navigation bar) so these users can get a better understanding on how copyrighted content is licensed here.

I don't really care who is ever paid to be the copyright manager of a giant studio or if they're independent and if they don't know what Fair Use is, and on Fair Use material I create (such as sprite recolors) I noticed that You-Know-Who upon reading my disputes, the claim was still valid. Yep, he kept abusing his power over and over again. If they still don't want it up, they can do one final blow to you: they can file a DMCA notice to Wikia. If this happens, they remove your material and you might get globalled. There's also a way to get around this too.

You can issue something called a counter-notification. When you do this, tell them that it's Fair Use and not violating any copyright. Doing this is actually a legal action and You-Know-Who is not actually that stupid that he will actually try to sue you.

If you see this, please make a report on the Report page. Users who misrepresent the DMCA may face consequences as described in the Rules of Conduct. 