Garden of Shadows is down, but not out.

[strangetomato]

I thought I'd do my part to spread the word to anyone who might be wondering about Garden of Shadows, and why it's not working. It seems TSR made a legal complaint to GoS's web host about them redistributing their supposedly "copyrighted content." There are more details here on nymphynymms journal. (ETA: And also on Jenfold's dreamwidth journal.)

Thank you to simgaroop for bringing this to my attention. I'm a big fan of Garden of Shadows, even though I mostly lurk. They continue to create quality content for Sims 2, even though most other cc sites gave up the ghost a long time ago. I was thoroughly enjoying the Earth Day monthly theme, and I'm saddened that this messes with their next monthly theme right around that exciting time when the new theme is decided and announced (which theme won? Does anyone know? I was just going to go check). Way to ruin everyone's fun, TSR. Bunch of dicks.

Comments

[honorkid54.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting.

This is utter and complete crap.

[lady-talaie.livejournal.com]

But you get the overall point im trying to make. EAMaxis as granted us the ability to make CC and we do. If you didn't own the Sims 2 to the content wouldn't work any, thus ignoring them from the whole who owns the work anyway since they let the creator take the credit and EAMaxis dose not.

[lady-talaie.livejournal.com]

Is it ene know as a fact that EAMaxis supports TSR? I thought that ad was a load of crap and not even real. Not to mention that Mod will come up in any search engine before TSR.

[anebrd.livejournal.com]

Alot of people are writing, wondering how TSR will make such claims on copyrights and whatever. However I wonder if it is the case of simply removing a threat to them. I mean GoS has a huge fan base. Perhaps TSR thinks we will go there. Merely a thought.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

I know! I thought it was just either a) my internet acting screwy or b) GoS experiencing a server outage (well, that's technically true, in a sense) and it'd be back to normal in a day or two.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

How about "bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling"?

That's from Pratchett. I forget which book.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'll break my rule if I really want some specific thing, in the interest of casting the widest possible net (for example, I have a couple CF gothic dresses from TSR), but normally I don't even go near it because I don't want to get douchebag paysite all over me.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Oh, I very much doubt that. They're not even in the same area code as reality.

[llama-ramalon.livejournal.com]

I saw this right when I was about to try and get on, darn. :(
Else-wise, bleh on TSR. That is all.

[jenfold-sims.livejournal.com]

I just thought I'd drop by to pass on the message that fittingly the GoS sims 2 theme for May is going to be the Apocalypse. You did want to know after all!

The forum is not back up yet, we're working on it, but in the meantime we thought that people might like to start thinking about it/making stuff with the extra free time that having no forum has left them.