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Originally Posted by corroonb
What exactly is the point of the safe harbour provisions of the DMCA?
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This was a German ruling based on European law. DMCA is American.
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Also when will we start to see content owners prosecuted for perjury when they submitted frivolous DMCA takedowns? Never because the law and the legal system is systemically corrupt.
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Here is a description of those frivolous requests:
http://torrentfreak.com/google-start...quests-121213/
It sound to me like the requests are mistakes, not deliberate. Given the enormous volume of takedown requests, some of it must be automated, and so could be the result of a software bug.
By contrast, I think the people who are illegally uploading and downloading copyrighted materials are more likely to be doing so deliberately. So why not prosecute them first?
Do I mean that seriously? No. But just like I don't want to ruin the lives of college student downloaders, I don't want to ruin the lives of people working at Warner Brothers or Penguin Random House. This should be a civil matter.