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Herein I will keep a list of all the known fan sites who received a cease and desist letter and how they are adapting (or not). I'll try to keep this up to date as new information is received and confirmed. Apparently there are 50+ affected websites.

talkbloodbowl.com Bloodbowl fansite: Changed domain to talkfantasyfootball.org

blood-bowl.net Bloodbowl fansite: Changed domain to thenaf.net

bbarena.net French Bloodbowl fansite: Unknown

enefel.org French Bloodbowl fansite: Unknown

darkreign40k.com Dark Heresy RPG fansite: Attempting to comply with C&D letter

portmaw.com Battlefleet Gothic fansite: Unknown

bloodbowl.net Bloodbowl fansite: Closed 28/Aug/09. Site domain being transferred

fumbbl.com Bloodbowl fansite: Unknown

"I have received a Cease and Desist letter from Games Workshop's legal group. The website is not allowed to use any art or text from either Games Workshop or Fantasy Flight Games products, not even linked from other websites like Amazon.

You can understand that it is very dificult, maybe impossible, for a fansite to exist if it can't show the product(s) it writes about.

GW has given 19th of november as the deadline. If at that date any images or text remain than they will sue me.

So, unless somebody knows a solution DR40K will cease to be on the 18th." - Mordheim (Dark Reign 40k)

http://darkreign40k.com/forum/index.php?topic=3071.0

malfred wrote:You wrote this as day/month/year, right?

Yep, they went belly up yesterday.

The Java Bloodbowl program could probably get round this by making players enter their own stats. Rules cannot be copywritten or Trademarked unless you copy the exact wording. The Bloodbowl pitch can be replaced with a simple grid with American Football markings on it.