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Sorry I inconvenienced you for a day but tbh SOPA is a really important thing. You know how extremely tough we are on piracy. Technically as far as the current rules go we don't even have to police for people posting links, just take them down if someone complains. We do it as a sign of respect to the creators of the works we know and love, and to try to avoid the usual "download everything that moves" stigma most visual culture fandoms have.
You may think our policies are super strict and tough, but realize under SOPA they wouldn't be tough enough. We become liable for every link made and if a link gets posted and the content owner sees it they can have our site taken down immediately. Under the current system a content owner would issue a takedown notice and as long as we take ot down within a reasonable timeframe we are not liable for it. It's a provision known as "safe harbor", we cannot be held liable for the actions of our userbase as long as we comply with notices. Now if we choose to keep the content up anyways then we are liable and the fisticuffs come out, or if the user files a counterclaim we can put it back up then the user becomes liable.
Under SOPA though, there is no "safe harbor", if a user posts a copyrighted link the owners can just request our site be shut down and then we would have to pleade and prove our innocence. It doesn't matter if we don't condone it or if we the site owners did not permit it, if it happens and we are caught we are liable. So essentially we would have to check every single post with a link in it for copyroghted materials, lest we let one slip through. Sites like danbooru and deviantart would be shut down overnight, they don't have the legal resources to survive. YouTube would, but it'd be so expensive Google would probably just take theor ball home and shut down. Sites like Justin.TV and UStream would be dead.
So yeah sorry for blocking the forum overnight but if SOPA passes you can forget about this site ever existing again.