First things first — IANAL. What I can tell you is that a lot depends on where you are located and who your regulators are. For example, in Belgium, the polic

First things first — IANAL. What I can tell you is that a lot depends on where you are located and who your regulators are. For example, in Belgium, the police have pretty broad powers to come in and just seize stuff, and you are criminally liable for anything that gets onto your servers, regardless of how that happened. Now, the police generally are smart enough to ask for your assistance in catching the real criminals who uploaded the illegal content and they would rather work with you than against you. But make no mistake, they will turn around and haul your ass down to jail in a heartbeat, if they think you are complicit.