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Originally Posted by HarryT
If MR's experience is anything to go by, people are very vigilant when they know that a policy is there for everyone's benefit. If someone uploads something dodgy here, you can guarantee that half a dozen people will have reported it within 10 minutes.
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That's how it is with most sites currently and imo the only sane way to operate a site that allows user generated content. However, SOPA threatens safe harbour provisions based on what the EFF have said.
If what the EFF stated is accurate, would MR still be able to operate if every single post made had to be pre-moderated before been made publicly accessible and every avatar checked to ensure it didn't include infringing images each and every time a user attempted to change it?
The impact of SOPA is quite far reaching by the sounds of it, video game companies are worried that they may have to no longer allow user generated content as the "report this content" option wouldn't cut it.
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Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, sites that host user content can't be held liable for copyright infringement by users as long as they respond to valid takedown notices and comply with some other requirements, but they don't have to look actively for infringing content. Under PIPA and SOPA, all sites that host users' content would have to become copyright police or risk being shut down because of the actions of a few users.
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Source article which quotes Mitch Stoltz, EFF staff attorney and intellectual property expert.