[TheForge] Anyone know why IForgeIron dot com is down?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Sigh, ugly!...Modern times i guess.
Thanks Jerry.

On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:

iforge is back online but with a limited message saying what's going on. This is it as a FWD.

There's been a lot of baseless speculation being posted in other Fora and it's doing nobody any good. I understand folks and how speculation builds into sometimes huge avalanches of posts. There's nothing to them but it's falling into the maliscious law suits being filed by someone with more money than whatever. Basically Iforge is shut down for the foreseeable future by one person with an axe to grind.

I don't know who is filing the maliscious lawsuits and Glenn ain't telling. The IFI legal team is on it. Please be patient, unsupported speculation ain't doing anybody any good except the dingk brain who's spending money to shut IFI down out of spit.

Just imagine what it'd do to a legitimate site like ABANA if I go cranky enough to get myself banned from theforge list and decided to sew ABANA for copyright infringement for every post of mine they ever posted here and had the money to pay a lawyer to file under DMCA laws.

That's what I know
Jer


I Forge Iron

We're a site about blacksmithing that servers over 2 million pages and serves over 80,000 people a month.


  Where is the site?

We ban users a lot. In fact, we've banned over 15,000 users (mostly spam) in our 10+ years. This usually goes unnoticed. However, a recently banned demanded we reinstate his account or he'd take legal action. He did.


  An Abusive DMCA Was Filed;

The banned user filed an abusive DMCA with our webhost claiming broad copyright violations on thousands of pages and gave us 48 hours to take it down. We filed a counter notice, but the DMCA reads that the material must be kept offline for 10-12 days. Our host, disabled the website (by mistake I might add) until that time passes.


  Wait! Doesn't the Terms of Service Help?

No. It doesn't prevent abuses like this. :(


  When will this be over?

Our lawyers are handling it at this point.

We are looking into other options.


  What can you do you help?

I could use a cup of coffee.
So the site is down for the forseeable future.  Some of the guys are communicating through Metal Artists Forum.
All the best.  Hope to see you this summer, hope all are well.
Bryan



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