@Mark
>Think more about a dating website.
You don't actually (as a company) go out dating all the respondents. All you are is a conduit between people. If two people meet and despite a warning that care should be taken, something terrible happens, you are NOT held responsible.
The point is, unfortunately my example does hold, and yours doesn't.
It is forbidden to publish copyrighted material, just like it is forbidden to kill (or even to act as a conduit between killers and "customers" if you've been warned repeatedly that one of your killers is a killer).
It is not forbidden to publish dating requests even if the dating goes wrong.
In the first case, you're a knowing actor. In the second, you're not.
Now back to my business. I tried again and this time, I thought I'd just take a 10% cut of any contract between providers and customers who met thanks to me. The provider comes, he meets the customer, a murder takes place and he's proven to be guilty.
Once. Twice. Thrice. Always I'm bringing him the customers. Not doing the killing, just allowing him to meet the customer.
Now a judge told me after the third time that I had to not allow him to meet customers.
At least if he didn't have a different hat compared to last time, or a moustache.
Not even report him to the police, oh no, just refuse taking him in.
But hey, that's really unfair, how am I supposed to recognize a guy who didn't change a single piece of clothing or hairface since last time I saw him, and still have a business?
I failed to comply. I didn't fail to complain though, cos' obviously that's sooooo unfair.
So think again please.
What is asked is just that if the EXACT SAME file is proposed again, not even modified by one byte, thenit can't be posted. Whoh, that's really, really unpractical and unfair to a business that did nothing wrong.
Except, that is, have 90% of its business come from illegal postings.