I think everyone understands the issue with potential copyright violations and the headaches they might bring for the site. Even though other sites are willing to host these items, this one has decided to (belatedly) take a conservative approach--conservative certainly seems to be the watchword here these days. Thats fine. Two things I find disturbing, one, that there was apparently no announcement prior to these actions being taken and two the issuing of "warnings" in an act of sanctioning people for previously accepted behavior. If this were an isolated incident it would be one thing but it isn't. It seems that every time something like this come up, the administration chooses to take the more heavy-handed, punitive approach when it wasn't necessary.. The policy is changing, fine, announce it and give people time to delete the offending items. Set a deadline and state that after than, anyone violating the policy will be sanctioned. Don't put official "warnings" in people's jackets for things they did in the past that were accepted, regardless of what the official policy was if you didn't enforce it. That's wrong, it's unnecessary. If there's some external pressure, some threatened lawsuit or other issue that's behind this, then at least let people know, they'll be more than willing to cooperate. Power used without common sense and compassion is abuse. Too much of that will destroy something that we all value very much, this site. I really don't know what's going on here but I wish the people who are really in charge, not the face-men, would take a moment to consider whether this heavy-handed approach is in their best long term interests.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken