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They're hosting copyrighted material (images, perhaps just cached?) without permission. They had a takedown process that they've now eschewed in favor of making artists give up more personal details to get something taken down.

The interesting problem here is that they have started giving artists and their takedown requests the runaround. Like they're running out the clock and trying to placate the bots for as long as possible without taking things down. The intent and actions here is what may get them in trouble.

Artists can go to their host directly (Google) but that doesn't mean that OpenSeas isn't liable the same way torrent sites might be for their users' content.



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