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by akerl_ 4360 days ago
Not having safe harbor would mean that if anybody posted content to GitHub that did violate copyright, GitHub would be liable and would end up having to fight in court. Even if they won, they would be expending massive amounts of money and effort fighting copyright battles.

These battles wouldn't even be fought "on behalf of their users", because the entities taking them to court would also be taking the end users to court.