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We will act in a timely manner on legitimate takedown requests, we respect copyright even though we feel the doctrine of copyrights is in desperate need of major overhaul; respecting others reasonable artistic wishes is only polite.
It is not actually necessary to use the DMCA, if you ask nicely that works too and is better for your karma, or something. It also makes Adam-7 happy.