Forum suddenly shutdown? WHY !?

[ZeroCool]

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Hello guys. I've made like 3 days ago a forum ... where I started to do something that I did on a community forum. I tought that if i came there with the idea, I can make a free forum for this, mostly from my passion for movies, tv shows ...

I had like a little presentation of tv shows / movies .. some actors biography (was next to do) .. tonight I made a topic for a movie, all good ... i submited the topic and after that BOOM ! I Received this message:
In accordance with Section 25(a) of the ProBoards Terms of Service, this forum has been taken offline.

Whats that? I dont know if I did something against the rules of something .. if it was, just tell me what to rectife, really dont want to lose the forum. I know is new, but it was made with passion.
I've read that section "25a" didnt understood what I did wrong. Its like you can close a forum if u want, no matter what the forum is ok or not. I really need some help here.

Thank you!
With respect,   ZeroCool!

[Michael]

Hi,

I suggest you contact [e-mail]. Abuse matters are not handled here on Support.

[ZeroCool]

Michael , hello and thank you for the fast reply. Ill send fast a e-mail before I go to sleep.
I know that probably it is on the "terms or conditions" but I want you to reply me with answer for 3 question. PLEASE! I really want to know if those are legal by proboards or not. Cuz I try to find out what I did wrong with my forum

1. May I put links to other sites (youtube / imdb) for like movie trailers?
2. May I put links for, online movies / tv shows watching?
3. May I put youtube links to songs? Like "make your playlist" or "whats the last song you heard"

Thank you very much for your help. Really hope that they will respond to my mail and atleast let me fix the problems. Im not a pro with forums, i lost the first day configuring the forum, adding plugins and stuff, making section, wasnt something VERY EASY for me but I liked.

Thank you again sir!

[Craig]

Mar 9, 2018 17:13:51 GMT -8 ZeroCool said:

Michael , hello and thank you for the fast reply. Ill send fast a e-mail before I go to sleep.
I know that probably it is on the "terms or conditions" but I want you to reply me with answer for 3 question. PLEASE! I really want to know if those are legal by proboards or not. Cuz I try to find out what I did wrong with my forum

1. May I put links to other sites (youtube / imdb) for like movie trailers?
2. May I put links for, online movies / tv shows watching?
3. May I put youtube links to songs? Like "make your playlist" or "whats the last song you heard"

Thank you very much for your help. Really hope that they will respond to my mail and atleast let me fix the problems. Im not a pro with forums, i lost the first day configuring the forum, adding plugins and stuff, making section, wasnt something VERY EASY for me but I liked.

Thank you again sir!

Linking to legitimate sites like the ones you listed [ youtube/imdb ] are fine, as long as you are not directly linking to something which is a copyright issue on there, for example, linking to an upload of a film which has only just been released in to cinemas, or a sports broadcast.  But to movie trailers, that is fine.  Your number 2 is a little ambiguous, but again, as long as they are links to legitimate sites, and there is no copyright issues, then you are free to link to them.

[ZeroCool]

Hmm, so that seems to be the problem. At my #2 question, the sites were like piracy sites or however are those called... so wasnt nothing legal with monthly fee like netflix... those were free2watch websites for movies and tv serials. So I guess this was a problem, well ... i wont post those online watching for movies and tv serials even that ive read the TOS and I dont remember to see a point that say "illegal movies websites are not allowed by ProBoards TOS", thats why I posted them on my presentations, to help ppl to watch those online.

I wait to see if they will reply to my e-mail that ive sent at [e-mail], wasnt even a real motiv to close the 3 days old forum. 25a from TOS, PLEASE EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE, but is a bs rule (

[Craig]

Mar 12, 2018 3:01:53 GMT -8 ZeroCool said:

Hmm, so that seems to be the problem. At my #2 question, the sites were like piracy sites or however are those called... so wasnt nothing legal with monthly fee like netflix... those were free2watch websites for movies and tv serials. So I guess this was a problem, well ... i wont post those online watching for movies and tv serials even that ive read the TOS and I dont remember to see a point that say "illegal movies websites are not allowed by ProBoards TOS", thats why I posted them on my presentations, to help ppl to watch those online.

I wait to see if they will reply to my e-mail that ive sent at [e-mail], wasnt even a real motiv to close the 3 days old forum. 25a from TOS, PLEASE EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE, but is a bs rule (

In the TOS, it is covered under section 20, with respect to copyright material.   The key word in your post above is 'illegal', if it is not legal, it can not be posted on the site.

[Kami]

Also, if the purpose of the forum was to share links to illicit sites, then by definition that is grounds to remove the forum for a ToS violation — PB is not in the business of wantonly removing forums as that impacts the revenue they receive.  If they removed your forum without warning, then there was a violation either so severe, or the purpose of the forum itself was against ToS.

If you want to share content, then that content must be yours to share OR posted on a legitimate site by the legitimate owner(s) and their terms of sharing adhered to.

[ZeroCool]

Craig , Kami ... well, so that was the problem those online links.
i've learnt from my mistake, so no more online watching things, hehe!
In my country we watch movies online ALOT! We didnt had nothing like netflix, until they released it, in my country. So I really didnt realised that will be a problem.

Really hope that, this time .. there will be NOTHING against TOS. No more links to watch online. Only links will be to IMDb and Youtube (trailers) ... really hope that this forum will be let to live, really like to do this

Thank you both for replies. :X