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[Sarteck]

@mollypix, yes, that is correct. (Having been the target of DMCA notices, I can confirm that. XP)



@Macsee, no, we are not talking about images on their hard drive. Again, read the original post. :P We're talking about images uploaded to other services that (for many reasons) disappear.

If you go on my forum and look at threads from six years ago, you'll probably find a metric butt-ton of posts that contain images that no longer show. Sometimes it's that sites that once contained them no longer exist; sometimes it's Photobucket images that have since been moved or deleted. Hell, sometimes it's because the user violated the Terms of Service in some other way than copyright infringement (such as adult material) that I do allow on my own forum. I would say that the number of those types of images exceed by a tremendous amount images that have been "stolen" or in some other way infringe on someone's rights.

Hell, some of my own posts at my forum are like that. I have posted images to my Photobucket before, linked them at my forum in posts, and then later moved the images to a sub-folder to better organize them. The result? Obviously, "The image cannot be found." I'd wager a lot of other people do that all the time. :awe:



Installing such a modification is in no way different than enabling the cache on a browser (which most browsers do by default). Like that modification, the browser stores images for ease of browsing. :P

Sorry, I just think that kind of stance is pretty ridiculous, heh.