Torchwood shit (I know this fandom was too good to be true)
Okay, yeah I know, I’ve been gone for ages and serious RL update is coming later, but something more important came up:
Read THIS first.
You know, this just pisses me off. I get about licenses and copyrights and what shit, but this is a fan convention which should be organized by fans for fans. Fandom for me has always been about the underground, and about freedom and about free production. Stories passing on in postal lists and on the internet, and for some reason this kind of behavior really pisses me off.
They (TPTB) have always done these things; closing down web sites, cease and desist orders and every fucking trick in the book, but never have we complied with their request. We mounted a rebellion when LJ tried to fuck us over and went underground for Harry porn. I feel that this is very much a same issue, the Torchwood TPTB have just announced that if you don’t have the money and the free time and possibility to travel to these cons (which btw they have totally take over!) you, as a fan, can fuck off! Now they are well within their rights to do this, protecting their copyright etc. but what I don’t approve is fandom complying with this crap. We are supposed to be united! Striketrough, people! Where is that spirit?!
And how dare somebody ask fandom to snitch on one of their own?!
I say bring on the video! Anybody know where one is cause I want it! Not just because I want to see that play, but because I want to rebel! I’ve been around for a long time, I’ve lived through the 20th Century Fox quibbles about X-files and closing down of fan sites, Harry Potter upheaval and we have always closed ranks and protected our own and in no way has it hurt fandom. What people seem to be forgetting is that They Need Us. They are protecting a copyright, but they seem to forget that it is Us who buy the products. What I say, don’t sell at conventions, don’t do fucking anything! We’re already writing, drawing and manipulating here for free.
Thanks you for listening.
Read THIS first.
You know, this just pisses me off. I get about licenses and copyrights and what shit, but this is a fan convention which should be organized by fans for fans. Fandom for me has always been about the underground, and about freedom and about free production. Stories passing on in postal lists and on the internet, and for some reason this kind of behavior really pisses me off.
They (TPTB) have always done these things; closing down web sites, cease and desist orders and every fucking trick in the book, but never have we complied with their request. We mounted a rebellion when LJ tried to fuck us over and went underground for Harry porn. I feel that this is very much a same issue, the Torchwood TPTB have just announced that if you don’t have the money and the free time and possibility to travel to these cons (which btw they have totally take over!) you, as a fan, can fuck off! Now they are well within their rights to do this, protecting their copyright etc. but what I don’t approve is fandom complying with this crap. We are supposed to be united! Striketrough, people! Where is that spirit?!
And how dare somebody ask fandom to snitch on one of their own?!
I say bring on the video! Anybody know where one is cause I want it! Not just because I want to see that play, but because I want to rebel! I’ve been around for a long time, I’ve lived through the 20th Century Fox quibbles about X-files and closing down of fan sites, Harry Potter upheaval and we have always closed ranks and protected our own and in no way has it hurt fandom. What people seem to be forgetting is that They Need Us. They are protecting a copyright, but they seem to forget that it is Us who buy the products. What I say, don’t sell at conventions, don’t do fucking anything! We’re already writing, drawing and manipulating here for free.
Thanks you for listening.