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Originally Posted by Quoth
They shouldn't need ANY official notification when a title is obviously copyright and it's flagged.
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"Shouldn't need" is not a legal argument. The onus has always been on the rights holder to protect their copyright by reporting violations. This is not new. The DMCA takedown procedure IS the legal mechanism rights holders need to use to remove online content (if they don't wish to sue). IA is not responsible for doing this process for them.
I happen to think rights holders shouldn't need to do this either. But in the real--legal--world, "shouldn't need to" is quite meaningless. Until laws change, only doing what you shouldn't need to do will ever move the needle.