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No, what they are doing is protecting their Safe Harbor status. Under the DMCA, a site operator cannot be held liable for content posted by its users as long as they respond appropriately and promptly to takedown requests. If an operator fails to do that, they can lose that protection. For the reasons you mentioned, I think you can understand why reddit losing its legal shield would be A Very Bad Thing.
Comment by orangejulius at 07/09/2014 at 17:33 UTC*
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I'm a lawyer. I have ample experience w dmca and cda advice. They were never not compliant as far as I can tell. They just quit taking down thumb nails and banned the sub because they got tire of doing the work and until they edited their posts a bunch they said the work was distasteful.