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Originally Posted by pdurrant
So really, if /anyone/ sends them a notice that they're hosting Harry Potter, they should take it down straight away.
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Dear Moderators, pdurrant's post is an exact copy of a comment I read in a published book, and is an infringement of it's copyright. Please delete their comment from this thread.
OK, not really, but I think you can see how easily such a system would be abused. The only person who can issue a legally binding takedown notice is the copyright holder, specifically because they have to state "under penalty of perjury" that they are the copyright holder. Accepting notices from "anyone" would quickly escalate out of hand. You could start getting someone else's content removed just because you didn't like them, etc.
There's a reason that the DMCA requires it to come from the copyright holder, and even that is being abused.