Please help!
A unpleasant individual by the name of Cliff James is waging war against Tumblr, or to be more precise, against spanking blogs on Tumblr. He has already caused the deletion of a number of accounts by wildly claiming copyright for a myriad of images. We have no idea why he does this (Bitter? No sex life? Who knows…..) but we really need him to stop.He now posts under http://thespankingblogtaker.tumblr.com (I know, how creative…) and myself and many others would be most grateful if:
- You help us reblog this as often as possible
- Set his account to ignore and complain about him to Tumblr.
We all have no idea why this warped individual does this. He clearly doesn’t understand Tumblr or today’s online environment. Some of us have even had contact with him (he claims to have worked for some old spanking magazines but there is no way to prove this) and have agreed to give him full image credit, to which he agreed, only to then turn around and complain anyway.
None of us are malicious copyright infringers. We all just post about stuff we like and we will take images down as soon as we are requested. This individual never even asked! He’s on a mission and completely misses the opportunity of having loads of powerful blogs link to his site. Instead, he is pissing everyone off. So please remember the name Cliff James, please complain about him to Tumblr and please avoid this individual wherever possible. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
How about, as members of the spanking community, we boycott memberships to any site that is affiliated with Cliff James. Perhaps that will send the message that despite posting an occasional photo that is may be copyrighted, WE ARE the people who also support all the paid sites! Lets just stop and think about all the Tumblr traffic that is directed to paid sites because of a posting. The new online paradigm is fixed. There is no going back. If Cliff James wants to shut everyone down, should we not return the favor?
Yes, I too was given a stern warning from Tumblr because the same Cliff James claimed I used one of his precious photos. We must UNITE!