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Yeah... is the thumbnail image really the crux of this whole thing? And is this obvious solution not an option?
Comment by LacquerCritic at 07/09/2014 at 09:07 UTC
541 upvotes, 15 direct replies
Did you read the whole post? It was the DMCA requests - which they got regardless of thumbnails, and they would still have to respond and redirect to imgur or whatever other actual host was being used - combined with constant reposts of child porn, combined with malicious links being posted, combined with massive traffic that was causing site wide problems.
It sounds like short of hiring a second set of staff to just manage the above issues, they were overwhelmed and banned the subs because they couldn't manage it otherwise.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/09/2014 at 13:08 UTC
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I think the ignorance of the lawyers of the Celebs is the Crux.
They think Reddit is hosting the content... They are probably unaware of the thumbnails and think the link to Imugr is reddit hosting it.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/09/2014 at 18:44 UTC
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When DMCA hits google it's because they want a link to said content taken down. I'm guessing that's how the law would interpret this if reddit didn't take down the links. I could be wrong but if you had to remove the link and thumbnail it'd be easier just to remove the entire content.