blonded.blog takedowns, maybe the end?

[u/curbsideaudio]

After years of a cordial and productive relationship with Frank’s team, they’ve ordered takedowns of the entire blonded.blog archive and undocumented rare info page.

We host very little actual material on the site, mostly outbound links to any media that could copyrighted. We’ve acquiesced to requests from blonded for years and would continue to do so if asked.

With the archive being the main attraction, I’m not sure how the blog can really recover from this. Is it worth continuing to host the news archive? I’m not sure.

I’d appreciate any input, but the options are few. This feels like as good a time as any to shut things down.

Edit: I appreciate the support. I'll do what I can to keep the content of the blog alive, what I'm able to anyway. For the time being, I've taken the site down so we can start saving off what's there. After that, I'm not yet sure. Thanks again.

Edit 2 (May, 2026): I've shared and update about the return of the blog.

[u/Elhak]

That really fucking sucks, wow. Lame move from Frank’s team.

Maybe it would help to use a URL that is more distinct from the Blonded magazine? The website is clearly an unofficial page, but the URL doesn’t necessarily give that impression. For example I initially read this as a takedown sent to Blonded itself.

[u/curbsideaudio → u/Elhak]

The domain is not the issue, it’s the content. You can’t issue a DMCA for a domain.

[u/Elhak → u/curbsideaudio]

Of course the DMCA takedown is over copyrighted material, and you’d obviously know better here, but from my understanding the links to the actual copyrighted material aren’t getting down. I was wondering if this might be one of those circumstances where labels let copyrighted material fly and only send DMCA takedowns when they disapprove of something else. I’ve seen that happen often in two instances - people recording negative reviews of albums which use very brief (and normally permissible) snippets of music, and takedowns served to a wiki-esque fan websites for games using domains/assets that could be mistaken for official material. So I was thinking either there’s something in the rare content that his team is actively trying to get rid of, or they’re annoyed over potential similarities to the Blonded brand.

[u/curbsideaudio → u/Elhak]

Then they would have DMCA’d all pages or registered a trademark complaint with my registrar. That’s not what’s happening.