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ACDSee Ultimate uses AI to automatically generate keywords. It's not 100% but it works pretty well.

Consumer Contracts Regulations and the Consumer Rights Act

These are UK laws. MPB is an American company. Neither of us have any idea of the OP's residence.

This is why giving legal advice to strangers on the internet is such a very, very bad idea.

SD cards have a limited number of write cycles. Heavy use can exceed this and result in corrupted data. If this should happen again, instead of reshooting, first take a look at data recovery software. EaseUS and Recuva are two companies that have this software but there are others. I have used Recuva to recover photographs from a corrupted SD card.

Your technique is adequate. Sorry, though, but your eye is not. These are, at best, snapshots of things you like or think are interesting. None of them say anything. Any art can be considered successful when it allows its audience to have a better understanding of themselves and the world they live in. In that context, your photographs are not successful art. I'd recommend studying some of the great photographers. Focus on their selectivity. Ask yourself, "What does this photographer think about his/her subject?" Then go out in world with your camera and look for opportunities to speak through your photographs.

As someone else suggested, send a DMCA takedown notice. The reason the site says that nothing on it is protected by copyright is because the government can't own copyrights.

You are not my client, and I am not providing legal advice, merely general information about copyright law in the US.

1. Copyright law is preemptive federal law, i.e. there is no such thing as "state copyright law," is the same throughout the nation regardless of state, and federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.
2. Copyright protection attaches to creative works as soon as they are fixed in a tangible medium. With respect to digital photography, "fixation" occurs when the image is saved on a memory card or other digital storage device.
3. Registration is a prerequisite for filing a copyright infringement action. Most, but not all, federal jurisdictions allow registration after the suit is filed.
4. Statutory damages have nothing to do with whether a work is registered or not. Infringement plaintiffs can elect either actual damages or statutory damages. Statutory damages are higher for intentional infringement than unintentional infringement. Statutory damages are available without proof of actual damages.
5. Copyright infringement is strict liability, i.e. it doesn't matter whether the infringer was aware the copied work was protected under copyright or not.

There is a lot of misinformation in this thread, all of it from non-lawyers. Most reputable intellectual property lawyers will provide a free consultation as to how to address infringement concerns, and whether it is worth pursuing. I'd suggest you call one, rather than relying on anonymous advice on Reddit (or anywhere else on the internet).

I have a file server at home with 26 TB of RAID5 storage that, in turn, is backed up to 3 RAID5 NASes. I would NEVER store photographs on something as volatile as an SD card or a single hard-drive.