Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4698889-20170726130044/@comment-2602:301:77AD:9270:4885:E4B7:A062:D9F0-20170809184102

Who says mothy is watching us? Just because he is aware the wiki exists doesn't mean he's coming over to look at it a lot.

Mothy did not say, to us, "you guys need to stop linking to and uploading my videos on Youtube"

He said, at the end of a blog post about his upcoming album, "I would appreciate it if you guys didn't upload this one to Youtube (though that's not limited to this song)".

I'm not saying that keeping all this stuff on is right, I mean it's morally gray at best, but this was not mothy making a direct command, this was him expressing his stance on fan behavior. And honestly it's not like we really needed him to say it to know that's how he'd feel about it. I think everyone knows that an author doesn't really appreciate it when you make their work that you're supposed to pay for publicly available.

I'm just saying, this doesn't really change anything. And like Tobimisa said, a TON of content on the wiki is in a similar position, ethically and legally speaking. If we're going to start removing content because it breaks that ethical line, then there's a LOT of other stuff that qualifies. If we're going to make exceptions for, for example, manga scans, and sharing the lyrics, then why wouldn't we make an exception for this?