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And Finally
McFly demand photo ban on gay message board
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 24 May 2010
This is a strange one. McFly’s management company have seemingly asked a popular gay message board to stop their users from posting pictures of the band – many clothing-lite photos – for other board-users to ogle at. This is presumably not the same McFly who once stripped naked on stage at GAY to celebrate their single getting to number one.
To be fair, the sort-of-boyband’s managers aren’t actually bothered that their act has a profile on a gay site like FM Forums (aside from that being homophobic, it would just be dumb, given presumably the band rely in part on a gay fanbase to shift records), but rather they are stressing about the number of private photos of the McFly boys that are appearing online. More for privacy reasons than because of any copyright claim, I think.
One of the moderators of FM Forums, which has kindly agreed to instigate a McFly snap ban, said that the letter from the band’s managers said: “We are continuing to investigate how these pictures leak out”. Helping in that regard, said moderator observed: “I think you’ll find your band members are posting them on Twitter!”
