should i lock all the Tomalicious entries just in case...?? we won't get in trouble, right??

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

so today i suddenly got a PM from someone. one of the people who helped re-upload Tomalicious videos a while back. she said all her toma videos on mega were deleted and she will delete her own livejournal soon and please remove her username from the post that listed all the re-uploaded video links. so i did do that for her.

but then the news about japan arresting that man for uploading variety shows to daily motion and them trying to stop anime and manga fans overseas from sharing stuff is kind of making me nervous. i know johnny's artists related videos are removed from youtube pretty fast. but has anyone heard of anyone getting in trouble for subbing and uploading johnny's artists related videos, that are overseas?? i don't think so, right? and i mean...they would probably have did it sooner if they wanted to. tomalicious has been around for a long time... since 2007!!

i still felt kinda nervous about it, so i have members-locked the entry about all the re-uploaded videos for tomalicious. unfortunately, tomalicious's posts are ALL public. lol. all these years!! why didn't they members-lock it???? i wish i could change all the posts to members-locked at once, but i would have to do it manually, each one. and there are 190 posts in all. -___-

do you think we have to worry about this at all, or am i just worrying too much? lol.

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Comments

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

now i kind of regret becoming a project leader for TFS. lollll. i didn't even accomplish much. just 1 completed project. and then i got ppl to re-upload videos. that's it. lol. as much as i love Tomalicious and Toma, it's not worth getting in trouble legally. god, i hope johnny's never comes after us for wanting to share toma stuff with toma fans!! =(

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

i guess i WILL start members-locking all the posts. ughhhhhhhhh. -____- i'll just do a little bit each day. hmm.

[tomapiya.livejournal.com]

sorry, i didnt know about my re-up thing in tomalicious..
but about this
i wish i could change all the posts to members-locked at once
i think you can change it at once..
i did it to my own LJ..
but i forgot how..
im sorry...

[tfs-team.livejournal.com]

ALSO, SHOULD I DELETE PPL'S USERNAMES FROM THE RE-UPLOADED VIDEOS ENTRY????

ANYBODY WANT ME TO DELETE YOUR USERNAME?? tell me and i will. or maybe i'll just delete all of the usernames just in case?? i hate not giving people credit though...

[tfs-team.livejournal.com]

well, i have chose the option "minimize my community's inclusion in search engine results", so i hope that helps! also i googled "ikuta toma" and tomalicious_frm doesn't show up until the 6th page... so i guess that's not so bad. i bet it would show up on the first page if you search ikuta toma download though.... -_-

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

in case people are freaking out, i just want to remind everyone that the person i mentioned, all her files being deleted... this is not the first time this has happened. i remember 2 years ago when a lot of people's files (toma or johnny's related i think) on mediafire were deleted. and memo_toma even wrote a post about it and giving people advice on how to back up their files to another account. http://memo-toma.livejournal.com/5539.html

i don't know where these ppl lived (probably not in japan) BUT THOSE PEOPLE DID NOT GET INTO ANY LEGAL TROUBLE. it just happens sometimes, they do a sweep and check to see which files are copyrighted, and then they delete them. it's never happened to me (except on youtube), but i think it's happened to a lot of people and no one got in trouble. just that their files got deleted.

IF YOU ARE REALLY WORRIED THOUGH, YOU CAN ALWAYS GO TO YOUR MEDIAFIRE OF 4SHARED OR WHATEVER ACCUONTS AND DELETE ALL COPYRIGHTED TOMA OR OTHER VIDEOS....

ALSO.... i think if you only share toma/other copyrighted stuff sometimes, you should be ok. but if you have like a TON (like memo_toma) then maybe you'll have more chances of getting those files deleted or your account suspended...

but if you don't live in japan or a country that has super strict copyright laws (look it up...i'm not sure about the usa's laws. lol. but let me check now!), you should be ok!! i mean, even recently, with the celebrity pics leak, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE (in the usa, a lot of them, i think), re-uploaded the pics to sites like mega or something to share with other people, and i don't see anybody saying they got arrested. even though those pictures are considered copyrighted because they belong to those female celebrities.

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ok, here's some info and discussion i found that might be helpful for those of you in the usa like me, who are worried.

http://www.dailydot.com/news/copyright-alerts-how-to-download-upload-hide/
according to this article, as of last year, people in the usa can only get in trouble if they upload things to BitTorrent. even then, the consequences are minor and not that scary. just have to look at educational anti-piracy "courses" or get your internet slowed down after several warnings. xD

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/off-topic/general-off-topic/416805-megaupload-arrests
REMEMBER WHEN MEGAUPLOAD WAS SHUT DOWN 2 YEARS AGO BY THE united states department of justice? well, no one was arrested though. and last year, they relaunched as mega.co.nz. omg, i didn't know that was mega relaunched. lol. should have known. lolllll.

(this is kate)

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this is one of the the few times that i'm glad our fandom is pretty small and toma isn't super popular. haha. i mean... if johnny's go after overseas fans for uploading stuff, shouldn't they go after arashi fans first? lol... of course i hope they never will, though.

i mean, it's been this long and tomalicious never got any warnings or anything from them. i think we'll be ok... they just don't like it when people stream their stuff on youtube or dailymotion or something...i think...

[tomadaisuki.livejournal.com]

yes I am worried too.. Toma's things are really precious to me