A Response to Free Smiley's "Copyright Abuse" Page.

We at Freevived Smileys are well aware of the brand new copyright notice on the page

http://free-smiley.de/html/copyright_abuse.html. If the owner and/or legal team of Free-Smiley.de is reading this page, we are going to make ourselves very clear.

We will NOT shut down our page. We will NOT stop hosting these images on our sites. We are NOT scared. We know that what we are doing is 100% LEGAL. You cannot and will not sue a fansite that makes absolutely zero profit off of this site and only hosts images for historical purposes that have been posted on the internet for SHARING. If you want your images to be only hosted by you, then why aren't you hosting them anymore?

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If you want us to stop hosting your images, then bring Free-Smiley.de, Free-Smiley-Faces.de, and all other associating sites back onto the internet and/or ALLOW THEM TO BE ARCHIVED IN THE WAYBACK MACHINE. If you do not do these things, then we will continue to host these images and archive them for historical purposes. Archiving internet history never has and never will be illegal, trying to shut us down is like trying to arrest Indiana Jones for "stealing" those ancient artifacts and putting them on a museum.