It’s one thing to charge people for stupid shitposts, but Tumblr knows that gifs are one of their major attractions, they have a search feature specifically for it! How in the absolute fuck do you not see that letting people charge for the most popular posts–many of which are going to be, for example, gifs of Disney movies–is a one way ticket to the Mouse bringing out the lawsuit hammer en masse? And that it is entirely possible that it wouldn’t just be the Post Plus users, but that the entire site would be under fire for using a site that charges money to use their movies without paying any royalties or getting permission for it? Literally, how do you not see that as a nightmare that you’re bringing on yourself, tumblr?
#THERE IT IS #THERE’S THE BIG ARGUMENT AGAINST THIS #you honestly think that disney wouldn’t haul ass over here to shut the fucking site down if they did this? #fucking HELL #this is such a bad idea i don’t even know how to EXPRESS IT #someone who hasn’t filled out the survey yet #please get this in there somewhere #:P #oh tumblr #tumblr posts plus (via @eirenical) There’s always been a certain amount of leeway for creative work that is very clearly not official and I could believe that they’d let a fair amount slide for fic/art. But gifs? Just gifs from the movies/TV shows themselves? No goddamned way are they letting people make money off that and I cannot believe Automattic thinks this is a viable idea and not an absolute nightmare. I encourage everyone to fill out the survey and tell them what a bad idea this is and that it’s risking an avalanche of law suits.
Me: That would suck
Also me: That would be one hell of a way for this site to go out
Also also me: They wouldn’t do that on purpose, would they?
