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Anonymous
Sometime last night me and the head of D-W chatted regarding this. After a long chat I decided we would be willing to remove the torrents as the fellow was nice to work with, and helped with people that were spamming in the torrents about such content.
Remember, DATorrents is here to help the anime and manga communities, we don't want to go around pissing off groups by sharing stuff that they'd really not want to be shared over torrent.
Many US copy right holders have emailed me asking poliely to remove torrents and we have within a couple hours.
Now, with that being said, had D-W come to me with a DMCA, i would have told them to take a hike. To date, any company coming at us with a DMCA without first contacting an admin has had to wait a VERY long time for their content to be dealt with. As a Canadian, I take offense when pushy American's come around trying to make me adhere to their laws. If we wanted to be real jerks, I would simply move the site to the Netherlands and watch them squirm.
We don't want todo that, though, because like we said - we wanna share anime with everyone.
The original request for the DW content for removal was denied as the people who came to us about us were assholes over it. If they had sat down with one of us, i'm sure things would have gone much nicer as well.
There has been a few times as well, when fansub groups have asked that something not be shared online (in one case, it was the actual sub files for many of their releases). The group was nice about it, and so the content was addressed.
DATorrents is now made of cowards and fail.
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