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by anileated 884 days ago
Safe harbor law means that website operators can waive responsibility for infringing UGC they host, but in exchange they will remove it timely when notified. If operators were manually verifying every takedown request, no one would get anywhere—how do you prove that it is you on the photo without literally arriving in person? What if you are 20 years older now? And so on.