So this is it. Us Mafias have decided to go underground. Well mafias normally operate shadily already anyway… perhaps we should have done that from the start? But oh wells. No matter.
With this incident I truly feel it, quality over quantity.
And yup, it’s causing a huge ripple all over LJ. Mod posts have sprung up in comms left and right. Naturally, that includes DNA. I want to keep the community going in spite of all this, hence the rule changes. It is unfair to penalise the whole community for one person’s mistakes, but because of the way the Internet is, penalising everyone is the only way… beside preventing it from happening altogether of course. So that’s the route I am taking now. Minimising the risks of having rule breakers in the comm, minimising exposure and minimising the number of members…. I’m glad for those who understand why we are doing this. Being so secretive and all. IF JE was as open as… say… kpop(?), and didn’t care for people subbing their shows (? just my assumption here, I don’t know enough about kpop, just take this as a hypothetical example ok?), sure, why not? But that’s not the way it is. Japan, JE, they are very strict on their copyright laws. Yes we all know what we are doing is illegal. But that doesn’t give you the right to advertise these illegal work everywhere! It is precisely because we know that it is illegal, that’s why we are so secretive about things, that’s why we have rules, that’s why we don’t have open membership (some still do, but most don’t have open membership anymore). We god damn well know we are doing illegal things that’s why we want to be hush hush about it! And it’s just for the benefit of the fans that we are doing this! We don’t earn any money for doing this! All we get is your comments and friendship.
That said, I'm glad to see so many comments to the mod post already. I wonder how many active members we have... as much as I hope to see no one kicked out, I think there'll still be quite a number of people who will be... of course some may just be really busy in rl and have no logged on at all... but I bet there are those who just don't give a damn about replying to anything no matter what. Either way, I am not banning any kicked members so they are welcome to re-apply.
Anyways. No new releases coming up on DNA till the period for replying to the mod post has lapsed AND the membership has been sorted out. Well I don’t have anything on the file to release anyway. The current project will take *quite* long to finish… I was supposed to have started it last week, but us Mafias got distracted and decided to do that ninja AnS post. Yes, i’ll call them ninja projects from now on!
Meanwhile… let me finish up another post about not on serious, DNA stuff… and then I’m off to watch the latest VSA (and then I’ll be up to date till tonight’s AnS comes out), and then finally, finally, finally. LOVE! It’s been half a month already hahaha!