Oh yeah, I bet music sites do have very similar problems (though with Stealing From Artists OMG!!! substituted for Endangering Children OMG!!! in the related inflamatory rhetoric.)
The problem with invite-only groups is that they don't work nearly as well for the kinds of fandom where fans aren't there primarily to share copies of existing artworks. People in the kinds of fandom that I hang out in are mostly engaged in legal activities - legal, that is, in most jurisdictions that I know of - in the kinds of communities that thrive with low or no barriers to entry.
But I agree that there will be solutions that work for us; I just wish very much that those solutions included everyone staying on lj, and expect that this won't be the case.
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Date: 2007-08-04 11:21 pm (UTC)The problem with invite-only groups is that they don't work nearly as well for the kinds of fandom where fans aren't there primarily to share copies of existing artworks. People in the kinds of fandom that I hang out in are mostly engaged in legal activities - legal, that is, in most jurisdictions that I know of - in the kinds of communities that thrive with low or no barriers to entry.
But I agree that there will be solutions that work for us; I just wish very much that those solutions included everyone staying on lj, and expect that this won't be the case.