ok so today I decided to check what was new at ohayocon. so I typed in their address and all that came up was this!

Website Removed.



This letter serves as notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, or equivalent notice provisions of your local law, that content currently residing within this domain infringes on the copyrights and intellectual property of multiple individuals and corporations. In addition, the material in question contains proprietary trade secret information belonging to the originating developers or their associates.

The infringing material residing on your system is ohayocon.com websites, forums, and all registration backend software. This material is on your system at the following location:

ohayocon.com
forums.ohayocon.com
all other sub domains
all copied materials
all registration backend materials

Posting of privately held copyrighted material as described above is not authorized by any material owner, any agents thereto, or by law. Pursuant to this notification, you should immediately take steps to locate and remove and/or disable access to the copyrighted or non-licensed material that is on your system, copied from the web address(es) detailed above or received via any other method.

As a service provider, you may otherwise be liable for copyright infringement or theft if, upon obtaining knowledge or awareness of infringing material being stored upon your network, you do not act expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material. 17 U.S.C. § 512©.

The information in this notification is accurate. I swear under penalty of perjury that I am authorized to act on behalf of the respective owners in regard to their exclusive rights in the work(s) identified above that I believe has been and continues to be infringed as described above.

We hereby give notice of these activities to you and request that you take expeditious action to remove or disable access to the material described above, and thereby prevent the illegal reproduction and distribution of this material via your network.

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Please advise us regarding what actions you take.







If you have any questions, please contact thewholetruth@gmail.com - thank you.


that is complete and udder BULLSHIT! ohayocon has done nothing wrong!
what do you think?

No one knows or is saying anything other than BS. But you don't know that either.

It states that it's a copyright thing. There may be no Ohayocon if they have to use their money for court....

It's all but real or a really sad hack. None the less it looks like no hack and government busniess.

I'm guessing this might have to do with google accidently giving the government search words from everyone

OR

Some one claimed copyright on them

or

Someone claimed copyright on them and they found more

or

Some new con goer found their picture doing something wrong or without consent and

a] took action

or

b] asked to take it down, they refused, then took action (this is due to another letter someone got e-mailing the address on the bottom.

"The website has NOT been hacked. Due to forcible staff removal and breach of contract the owners, operators, licensers and holders of all copyrights, intellectual property, and digital files related of and related to the domain 'Ohayocon.com' and the holders and owners of said domain and hosting have removed said content and officially demanded the immediate destruction of all copies thereof pursuant to their rights as indicated by United States federal law title 15, 17 and all applicable federal and state laws. We apologize for any interruptions or inconvenience, and thank you for your cooperation."

But it looks like this messege is up NOW because of all the e-mails on "What happened"

What could they have up that would cause it to be shut down? Under the DMCA, I think most every con and fandom related website walks a VERY fine line of legality. Not knowing what's going on is bothersome. Should AP worry that we could be next? Is Ohayocon going to be happening this year? ..sigh..

Ran into this on the Ohayocon LJ (http://community.livejournal.com/ohayocon/17419.html):

Yes, the site is down at the moment, but it is being worked on. In the meantime, Ohayocon 7 is still on course. So if anyone starts spreading rumors, kindly correct them.

From the conchair:

First, it's something that shouldn't have been posted in the first place. Second, there was nothing used without permission. It's the act of someone who was formerly with the convention that had a little power and abused it. As for the email...I have a feeling I know who it is.

This is ALL I'm saying about what's going on. So PLEASE stop asking.


It also seems that they don't want too much bad publicity to stem from whatever internal shakeup is happening, so it'd probably be a good idea to do our best to cull the rumor mill.

It's best not to judge, Ohayocon has had more than it's fair share of sabatoge in the past.
Also...

http://www.ohayocon.justgotowned.com

thanks for the info RPG3000! and Kaisermikeb who made that movie becuse I am going to show the conchair this!

I don't know, someone showed it to me.

Ohayocon, is forming a new site.
Ohayocon.org

There is a bit of information up, but everyone is currently working on the site.
Yes ohayocon.com is down but it was not due to a hack. (Most people thought the site was hacked again.)

Ohayocon did nothing which went against any laws, ect...
Rpb, your quote from the conchair is true.

Currently Ohayocon staff is trying to get the new site up and running. So please look torwards Ohayocon.org for updates.

I'm glad I'm not an active Ohayocon Poster
This started when? I heard rumors for a while. But theres been other topics on other fourms about this.

Last week. There is a thread on Cosplay.com about this.

Miccy what forums?

Ikasu, duhs.

ok, I thought you meant forums I don't go to..lol

Ikasucon is dying again!
And this is when I usually swoop in, and post, because no one else is going to....
GOD. I'm a post w hore, anyway, yeah, thats where I got it.