Many intimate photos were stolen from a number of celebrities cell phones, then posted on 4chan’s /b/ Web forum, the things went wild as fire on the web!
Hence, the site has added something to its rules and policies, a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown policy. While 4chan previously relied on its rapid expiration of content to keep 4chan LLC and site founder Chris “moot” Poole out of trouble, the heavy scrutiny that came from the latest round of celebrity exposure has pushed the site to adopt more formal measures to avoid litigation. (Victims of photo theft could use copyright claims to seek damages from publications and websites that publish them.)
Under the policy, 4chan will now remove content when notified of a “bona fide infringement” under the law. The site will also contact the individual posting the content to tell this user it has been removed.
“It is the Company’s policy…that repeat offenders will have the infringing material removed from the system and that the Company will terminate such content provider’s, member’s or user’s access to the service,” the policy reads.
Not sure about how 4chan would inform members, particularly those on /b/ of infringing material, as they are by default anonymous. Poole has been a defender of online anonymity. In a 2010 TED talk, he described 4chan as a “site with no memory” because of the volume of traffic, discussions are aggressively rolled off the site into oblivion within several days.
Source : Ars
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