Forum needs stronger protection from copyright bots

I just got a copyright takedown notice yesterday on an overlay that I posted in these forums. I’ve never shared it anywhere else. It was hosted on MEGA.nz. (and doesn’t actually violate any copyright whatsoever) I can only reason that a bot is going through the forums and automatically reporting every single MEGA link it finds, and maybe other file sharing hosts as well.

Perhaps it’s time to implement a captcha to view links, or hide them from non-members or something. I’d be really sad to see some of the custom overlays, shaders and other user creations suddenly disappear.

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