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Originally Posted by newB
Do you even know what a hosted gallery is? A hosted gallery is so-named because it is hosted by the sponsor, in this case ND. As such, they retain complete control so when they delete the content it is inaccessible to anyone linking to it, which is what they did. Those that ripped the content and uploaded it to their own servers would of course be subject to legal reprisals.
All of that is moot, however, since the big difference here is that ND took immediate action to remove the content where MU did nothing of the sort.
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kiddie porn is always illegal
a copyrighted file can be linked too/accessed for fair use purposes (like backup)
MU removed all the infringing access by removing the link that were shared (and DMCAed )
leaving the links they were not sure were infringing (those that were never found because the people only used them for backup purposes).