This is from
Miss Glover/DialGforGloves' Tumblr. I unfortunately cannot answer it there anymore, but I'll do it here, in case more people are wondering.
glovedish wrote:Why would they [take down the worldofglovefetish Tumblr]? Couldn't they have given them a warning or just taken that post down?
theglover wrote:From what I gather, the blog had gotten some warnings, and the last warning was probably coupled with the statement that the blog would be taken down for good by the staff a few days from the last warning at most, if that made sense. It seems that there was a sort of 'point of no return' deal going on.
The first copyright claim came in December. What happens is that the posts that get reported are deleted, and you get a warning saying not to do it again and that if you get three strikes within 18(!) months, your blog is terminated.
The second one came six weeks later, in January, and was a rather unfortunate one. The copyright holders tried to contact me first to ask me to take down their photo, but that was right when I was in Rome for a couple of days, so I didn't see it right away. Before I got back, their patience had already run out and they had filed an official complaint as yet.
From that point on it could all be over any second, since the next strike would be the third. I started getting a bit nervous, so I added a disclaimer to the front page of the blog asking copyright holders to contact me first and wait for my reply. I never got any messages, but there weren't any complaints anymore either.
Until this week. On Monday came the copyright claim from Southern Charms. That should've already been it, but instead I got a "FINAL WARNING", allowing me one more strike. It was a short-lived reprieve, however, as SC's complaint turned out to be just the first part of a one-two punch, which was finished the next day, when - by coincidence - I got a complaint about a photo I posted a long time ago. And that was the knock-out.
Part of the problem was probably that I tagged all of our posts very extensively. That made it easy to find particular kinds of pictures for our followers, but also for copyright hunters. If I'd realized that when I started the blog, I'd probably not have tagged pictures with the name of their producers (we had a whole archive of pictures made by Playboy, for example - which wasn't one of the complainers, btw). But by the time I knew that could get us in trouble, we already had an archive of many thousands of pictures. There were bound to be a lot of copyrighted ones in there, just waiting to be found and reported, and it was impossible to weed 'em all out.
It's a huge shame, but I'm afraid it was inevitable that this is how it would eventually end.