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shmerl on Oct 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Yeah, this process is messed up. It gives preference to abusers, instead of making them prove things to take something down.

kadoban on Oct 23, 2020 [–]

It is messed up in practice, yeah. The counter to that is supposed to be that if you submit totally bogus claims you can be prosecuted for an actual crime, but as far as I know that never happens, at least for the big players.

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