Sometimes, adult webmasters scare the shit out of me, and convince me I should have done as my mother suggested, and become a lawyer. So much money to be made off the ducks.
First off, APIC
can not shut down anyone. They have no authority to do anything. Now, they can issue some bullshit threat, and the webmaster that receives it can freak out and do everything APIC tells them to, but that is about where it ends.
Secondly, any site that has been told by APIC to close up shop, from my understanding, has been told to do so not because they posted a gallery with unlicensed content submitted by someone else, but rather because the owner of the TGP made his own galleries to post using unlicensed content.
Since English is not the native tongue to everyone here, let me give an example.
Say you own dumbasstgp.com and you get 100 submits from different cheaters with stolen content, and you post those galleries, APIC, and no one else can say shit.
Now, if you own dumbasstgp.com and you are not getting enough submits, so you steal a bunch of content (not licensed to you is stolen) and you make your own galleries to give your TGP some content, and this content is licensed by APIC then yes, they can threaten you, and tell you to take your site down.
However, it is up to you if you take your site down or not. If you do not, it is up to them if they want to take you to court or not.
In a nutshell, if you use unlicensed content, you are asking for trouble, and deserve whatever trouble you find yourself in. However, if you run a TGP and happen to post a gallery that someone else has unlicensed content on, you have no worries.
Hope this helps clear up some confusion. Those still confused should close up shop anyway.
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