Originally Posted by Thurbs

interesting, wouldn't zooming in and taking out watermarks completely toss out the DMCA ? I thought DMCA was used to basically say this is from a user, we don't touch it, we don't manipulate it. it's either there or on proof of copyright violation taken down?

seems to me this would change the whole argument? I'm not a DMCA expert by any means, but I thought it was like either Users upload with no supervision ( approval ) or if using approval or modifications, then requires proof of ownership?