Is there anything that can be done about 6dollarshirts "Try Science" daily shirt?
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6dollarshirts.comPosted Oct 31, 2013, 2:05 PM UTC
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6dollarshirts.comWrite them an email telling them you don't appreciate what they did and you will not be buying from them
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I sent them such an email, I also told them "reddit knows what you did". Hopefully they can at the very least apologize and pull the shirt, or give Randall a cut.
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Or they'll just ignore you.
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Yeah, that is probably what is going to happen. But I can hope. That is why I chose the word "hopefully".
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Ah hope, so strong and fragile at the same time.
I don't think much will be done unless Randall threatens them with the law.
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What, exactly, did they do?
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Blatantly rip off an XKCD comic on a t shirt and sell it with no credit given.
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Thought it would be something like that.
Which comic in particular?
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so THIS is where he gets his ideas
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Randall could send them, or their web host if they don't respond, a DMCA takedown.
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Lace them with poison and hope it wipes out the hipsters?
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I emailed the Xkcd store and they said that this one is different enough that they don't think they can do anything from their end.
Ball's in the free market court.
Passive actions we can take: don't buy the shirt.
Active actions we can take: email 6 dollar shirts and complain, start a boycott/informational campaign, or train an army of spiders to infest their shirts and ruin their reputation through guerrilla warfare.
I don't have the ability to lead the boycott or spider training, and I seriously doubt they're going to care about emails from a few fans when they're raking in the cash. I would gladly take part in a boycott if somebody else were to head that up. If any of you know how to do the spiders, please pm me.
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God I wish I were a spider training expert, for the sake of XKCD.
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post comments on that page telling people what's up. they will probably get deleted, but that's no reason not to try
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Exactly what is the problem?
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Has anybody thought to ask Randall's opinion on the matter?
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Only $6? I'll buy two!
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Sometimes I wish anonymous was my personal army.
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You might be on the wrong website.
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I'm not really 4chan literate, I'm just saying if Anonymous was my personal army I'd have them attack this website for ripping off xkcd. What's so upsetting about that? Did I word it wrong? Sorry.
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Nice try 6dollarshirts, linking to your own web site.