Please go sign. ;A;
It takes only a few minutes…
No guys really. SIGN THIS PETITION!! This could end roleplaying, fanfictions, fanart, game reviews, you name it! THIS COULD SHUT DOWN TUMBLR!
The petition is found RIGHT HERE
sign it.
Since no one in this post, or the petition decided to actually explain this one does, I’ll give you the cliffnotes.
Basically, what this allows companies to do is remove websites that have any sort of content on their site without their permission lock, stock, and barrel, and gives them them the right to then sue any and all users of said infringing site with a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
What that means is that sites like Deviantart, Tumblr, Fanfiction.net, any site at all, can now be suspended and unable to be accessed without trial.
It also means that if you post a gif of a movie that you don’t own to Tumblr, you can now be fined or face up to five years in prison.
That also goes for fanfiction you might have posted, an rp blog you might have, a sound clip on a youtube video…
If you name it, simply having those things on a websites will have them shut down and removed from the DNS listing BEFORE they have a trial or are notified as to WHY they are being shut down.
Then, while they are shut down, you can be sued for having posted things on that website that you do not technically own.
So if you actually, you know, give a shit about your internet, your gifs, your fanfiction, your rp blogs, or any content that you don’t own.
THEN SIGN THIS.
DON’T JUST SIT BACK AND WAIT AROUND HOPING YOU WON’T BE PAYING THE COURT COSTS WHEN YOU GET SUED BY WARNER BROTHERS FOR POSTING HARRY POTTER GIFS OR DISNEY FOR POSTING FANART OF FROZEN.
THIS IS SERIOUS SHIT PEOPLE.
ALSO JUST INCASE YOU GUYS DIDNT LOOK AT THE DATE YOU NEED TO SIGN THIS BY THE 19TH. THATS WENSDAY. WE DONT EVEN HAVE A WEEK WE HAVE LIKE FOUR DAYS TO GET 50,000 MORE SIGNATURES.
We’re a little over halfway there and it’s the 15th! COME ON EVERYONE! Don’t just reblog and hope everyone else is going to sign it and it’ll all work out. Go make an account and sign it, go make a freaking bunch of accounts and sign it, even if you never visit the site again just go do it! It’ll take only a few minutes, we have four days left to get this done. EVERY SINGLE SIGNATURE COUNTS!
EVERYONE on this site needs to get their acts together and go sign this, there are millions of us on this website, getting 100’000 signatures should be nothing for us, we should have had this done a while after it came out.
In the time it takes you to watch one cute animal video you could make an account, sign this and reblog so all your followers can do the same. Fandom blogs, art blogs, RP blogs, personal blogs, THIS EFFECTS US ALL! If this shit goes ahead you may not have a blog to come back to, there may be no Tumblr to come back to. It takes less than 5 minutes. Take the time and do it, don’t just hope that everyone else will do it.
Your one signature could make the difference between stopping this and it going ahead. Make an account, sign, reblog. We don’t have long left so let’s get the signatures we need. Out of millions of bloggers I’m sure 100’000 of us can take the time to sign it.
Please sign it!
