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Moderating obvious content is something that needs to be done. However attempting to investigate the sources of peoples' content by most laws is beyond what is required by even the most draconian DMCA laws.
All that you should need to do is provide a DMCA/copyright method for content owners to use to remove this material. This is why youtube and other video sites are still around. It's one thing to promote blatant copyright infringement but it's a whole different beast to attempt to promote video manipulation. Besides one could make the argument that all the guides and software provided in itself is promoting copyright infringement. I'm sure there is some batshit lawyer getting this argument geared up already.
For example lets say you have a link to clip1. Nothing about it screams out copyrighted content. Is anyone here qualified to make a determination on whether it's fair use, public domain, copyrighted, authorized by copyright owner, etc?
Besides what makes copyrighted content any more special than tools to break DRM? This forum proudly promotes tools designed to do so even though breaking these protections is not clearly allowed by law.
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