[Coda]

Taking away the bbcode doesn't stop people from posting links; it only keeps people from posting CLICKABLE links. We'd have to actually censor anything that looks like a web link, and that starts pissing people off. It would kill the art section completely. It would disrupt the gaming section. It would make it difficult to have debates over current events. That'd kill the site as much as anything else.

Not to mention that would arguably not even help, because it wouldn't stop TEXTUAL copyright infringement -- might even make it worse! Someone can't link to an article, so just copy-pastes the article, maybe in a quote tag for attribution's sake... bam! Infringing on the article's copyright.