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Absolutely.

And an additional layer, if the victim has the time/resources to countersue, and can manage to prove malice or negligence behind the takedown, the punitive fine should be absolutely massive.

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The best part is that the DMCA theoretically has provisions to protect you against fraudulent claims, but no platform holder implements them. You can get absolutely blanketed by fraudulent DMCA notices and you have no recourse because companies like Google refuse to provide you any way to sue the person who's violating the law to harass you, and the companies don't make any attempt to filter out fraudulent notices.

Some random kid in Iowa could cost you thousands of dollars in daily revenue for weeks (while you wait for your dmca'd content to come back up) and you have no recourse because the law doesn't have any teeth.

Thats because technically, a youtube takedown is not a DMCA request. Instead it is a request closely modeled on DMCA takedown requests.

This applies to other Google services without content ID, like their extension store and app store

And then you enter the realm of private settlements where the victim is given money to drop the suit and to never talk about what happened ever again.

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