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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by kristofferR on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:39PM (#16277333)
Most on the internet too. Every image meme and reuploads of other images are basically also copyright violations.
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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by lugg on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:14PM (#16277597)
This doesn't mean a company Tumblr's size can ignore it. Reddit, Google, Facebook, et al all need to consider these things as they operate.

I'm not saying they can't skirt the laws a little bit and get away with it, all I'm saying is they need to have awareness.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by kristofferR on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @08:13PM (#16279004)
Nah, they just need to be vigilant about DMCA requests.

Due to the Safe Harbor rules in US copyright laws they don't really need to remove copyrighted content proactively. There's tons of subreddits exclusively dedicated to piracy that they don't care about.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by philipov on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:10PM (#16277566)
Everything you say, and everything you think, is a copyright infringement. Pay up!
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