I was just scanning my usual morning blogs today and came across this story reported in a number of places:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/26/ri ... _mach.html
Essentially, the RIAA forced a machinima site to shut down - the largest one I know of. There was no warning, just all of a sudden fans woke up and their site wasn't there. While I hope this is temporary and the RPGFilms folks get themselves a lawyer who understands the word parody (as it relates to fair use doctrine) this concerns me a great deal...
...what would we all do if AMV was gone from the 'net one morning? What if we could never congregate here and swap videos again?
I don't mean to be an alarmist, but given the precedent of a machinima (not all that different than what we do) crackdown, which as far as I know is a first for the RIAA, should we begin to be concerned about what may come next?
What steps can this community take to be prepared, in advance, to deal with such a risk?

