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Originally Posted by Abecedary
I believe the DMCA states that you make the claim "under penalty of perjury". But I don't believe anything has ever happened to anyone who has made a false claim, despite it having happened a number of times (most notably by the RIAA and MPAA claiming to represent the owners of works that they actually didn't have the copyright to).
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Yeah, DMCA takedown abuses happen all the time (even MobileRead has gotten them). You're right though, the government never goes after the companies making the false claims. That's probably why they keep doing it, they know they can get away with it.