Thanks to advice and help from a kind reader, who also happens be an attorney, the owners of the whimville domain finally took down my stuff from their site yesterday. Upon the advice of Mr. Major (the kind reader/attorney, I harnessed the dark power of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He was even kind enough to get the notice drawn up for me. It did the trick. Once emailed to the owners of the domain they quickly took down my stuff. Anyone else that runs into this kind of problem should look into using this solution. Thank you so much Mr. Major for your kind help and taking a huge thorn out of my side. I was feeling so helpless until I got his email on Saturday.
And that’s…. the rest of the story.
Cat, you should write up this complete chronology while it’s fresh in your mind — could be of tremendous value down the road, and Lord knows the ‘comics press’ won’t be reporting it with any accuracy.
You’re probably right, Steve. I should write it down and I’ll try to find the time soonish.
The webcomics press did a pretty great job of covering this. Gary Tyrrell over at Fleen actually emailed them about it before I did! And covered the whole thing on Fleen, which brought me mucho hits last week.