Quoted from cody_chunn:That was a sticking point for some. They contributed when the guides were free and expected to remain so. When Clay leveraged the guides into a pay-per-view (for lack of a better term), many contributors said they wanted their pics and/or info removed.
Instead of leaving the guides as a free resource, he chose to take them down instead of editing the documents to eliminate the controversy.
Now he says it's too much trouble to edit them for no "upside" of doing so. I guess just making them free again like they were has no "upside" for him either.
Most of the copyright claims were bogus in the first place. I contributed pictures to his guides and gave him full rights. But the uproar over him trying to use the content to help out a noble pinball-related charity put a bad taste in many peoples' mouths. When you try to do something nice for the community, after doing something nice for the community 100x over for more than a decade, and people still talk crap about you, you sometimes wonder why bother?