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The Whole Scans Daily Brouhaha
Feed THIS, Pal! — ... Daily - mostly, when I saw a link on Mike Sterling's (or some other blogger's) site with some wacky, zany schtick...or to get my regular dose of Greg Horn pornface. So I was pleasant surprised to hear that Livejournal pulled Scans Daily due to actions by Peter David (please see his explanation here). In short, the Internet is starting to crack in half, with some arguing that it is an infringement on creator's rights....with many others citing that it was an example of "fair use". Of course, there are also the rather ...

The latest on the Scans_Daily shutdown
ComicMix — ... think, and this makes him a bad man". I suspect this person felt that the three bears had no right to chase Goldilocks away, let alone eat her-- especially since she didn't like two-thirds of the porridge that she ate.) Further commentary has been brought up by Johanna Stokes Carlson and Gail Simone on the "you're shutting down a free comics site! Bad!" side, Kevin Church and Lisa Fortuner on the "About bloody time" side, and Digital Strips' Brigid Alverson giving equal time to both. As for the scans_daily ...

Scans_Daily shut down; Internet reacts…and reacts
THE BEAT — ... Brigid Alverson has the most thorough and level-headed round-up of links and so on, including the new home of the site. (Nothing goes away for too long on the Internet.) BUt there is much more. Writer Peter David had recently fond out about the site and was suspected of having “ratted themout”, however in a message thread that’s up ...

March 3, 2009: Big hand’s on 120, little hand’s on me
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal — ... And the Internet is now on fire: seemingly every comics fan with a website popped up with an opinion on the matter. Here’s Brigid Alverson, ...