As social-media-savvy users may know, Imgur is an image sharing
community and image host. Imgur has been created by Adam Schaaf in
2009 as a "Gift to Reddit" (Mr. Schaaf's own words in
a Reddit post)1.
Imgur, quickly took off, became go-to option to upload and share
images for most people and created its own community.
Unfortunately, access to Imgur was blocked in Turkey around
2016. Since several other online platforms (most famous of them was
YouTube) were subject to same access-block by then, block of access
to Imgur drew fairly less attention in Turkey. This was probably
due to the fact that, Imgur (and Reddit) had a niche user base in
Turkey (especially compared to user bases in Western countries) and
most people took the option to simply using a VPN or altering DNS
settings to find a way around the block. The main reason we took
interest in this case (which did not exactly fall within the scope
of our primary practice – IP law) was that our litigation
team were
