How to handle links to stolen vids and pics

[SplitDik (imported)]

The simplest solution is this:

LT is very knowledgeable about these things - links to videos and pictures.

If you feel the need to post a link, do so.

If it's a stolen image, LT can click on "REPORT POST" and let the Admin's know.

We will pull said link and tell you why with a post edit.

Thank you - and thank you, LT for spotting these. Tells you how many I've bothere

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Okay, that approach is fine.

However, to make it work there are a couple things. First of all the moderators/volunteer screeners need to understand that the person posting the link has very little way to know if it has been posted before or is stolen. And if we delete all the previous links there is no way to really search or check. LT seemed to think I should know that it had been posted before and that it was stolen, but honestly I would never have posted it if I knew either of those.

Secondly, I'm not sure how anyone can really say which things actually need protecting, except for the ones where he knows the content rights holder. In the video I linked, I'm not at all convinced that whoever owns the rights would care about us linking to it.

Also, along the lines of dualball's comment: In today's internet environment you effectively lose your privacy as soon as you make digital content. I don't mean that legally you should lose it, but that practically you do. As soon as you make a sex tape with your girlfriend you have to assume that it is going to end up all over the internet. As soon as you take a picture of your genitals you have to assume the same. They're even teaching this stuff in elementary school now -- you simply don't create any digital record that you wouldn't want broadcasted to the world. It's common sense. If governments, corporations, celebrities, politicians and movie studios can't protect content worth billions of dollars and secrets of national security then we shouldn't kid ourselves -- there is no expectation of privacy anymore.

Anyway, I'm content to abide by guidelines set by the community here. Just know that maybe my memory is failing me but I really did not know that the video I posted had been posted recently here or that it previously was cited as being stolen. So as long as people don't mind deleting every few posts of mine, I promise I will try (which

I did!) to see if it was obviously stolen.