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We need to have a DMCA day every year where everyone sends a 100 notices each to take down random content and preferably targeting content of politicians. Its the only way to raise awareness and also make companies not blindly remove content. If costs become high, they will lobby for more restrictive use of these notices.

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Those are hundreds of instances of people committing perjury.

That may be the point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

I don't believe actively sending false claims of copyright infringement can be called 'civil' still. It's going for the offense, instead of passively resisting.

The entire point of civil disobedience is to commit a crime (and usually do the time) in order to raise awareness about the unjustness of said crime

Not necessarily. The Constitution requires that all people get equal enforcement of the law. If you can demonstrate that the perjury components are never enforced against companies, you can argue that perjury charges would be unconstitutional selective enforcement.

I wouldn't want to be one of the people who have to prove that, though.

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