The good news is all sites based on FOXs shows are staying. The bad news is that all audio, video, and pictures are being forcefully removed.
THE STORY:
It all started on Friday, October 25, 1996. It was the premiere day of Fox Network's heavily promoted new show
Millennium. It was that day when Gil Trevizo, a member of the X-Phile community, received a cease-and-desist order
concerning the Unofficial Millennium site he had donated his time to creating. When the order was not
immediately followed, his web access was frozen, forbidding this college student who maintains several
X-Phile mailing lists access to either the web or his email account.
X-Philes, upset by this insult, and fearful that this was just the first step in a campaign by Fox Network
against all unofficial websites, flooded the company with E-mails protesting their actions, enough to crash
their E-mail server. But to no avail ...
Despite all of Gil's efforts to negotiate with David Oakes, the Fox representative, there would be no
compromise. The site came down Monday, October 28, and Fox Network won the battle. (but not the
war...)
But this seems not to be the end of the story. In fact, some talks have come to light that this may just be
the first step in a Fox campaign to end the existence of all unofficial web sites for their shows ... a test
case to see the response on the web.
Fox will start mailing C&D orders to people
with pictures on their site as soon as the press pack is ready. Those
people will then be given the choice between legal actions or removing
their pictures and replacing them by images from the press pack, after
having accepted Fox' agreement.
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Are you asking what is happening here?
Well, Fox isn't going to take away all
unofficial websites. They will how ever require that all sites
comply with the following guidelines.
