The safe harbor provisions mean the service provider has the obligation to remove the content upon receipt of a notice, genuine or not. The law was designed with the assumption that the courts are the proper forum to resolve issues like this - unfortunately legislators were not thinking of social media when the DMCA was written.

You would probably be appalled at the grammatical errors that make their way through the courts without any correction.

On one hand - lawyers are hired to know the law, not grammar. On the other hand - one would think enough reading of legal texts would filter out some bad issues. Perhaps it's now at the point where lawyers are learning bad grammar from their legal studies.

The sentence that really got me was where the PDF states

>you (owner of Redditsave.com) are responsible for paying your Attorney’s monthly bills.

They might not be a native English speaker. Also, it's less common but official communication does have grammatical errors on occasion.

As we know grammatical errors are the ideal way to judge if something is real or fake.

I don't know if the snarky replies to you have actually read the PDF -- some of the EGREGIOUS grammatical errors should've at the very least set someone's spidey senses tingling about the legitimacy of the takedown notice (or, "Website Take Down", in its own words).

Some choice selections (with my comments in parentheses) :

> (The whole section under "Misusing Reddit's API" is clearly written by someone for whom English is not a first language.)

> Breaking Redditquette (Redditquette?)

> You must "Take Down Redditsave.com and its services" within 3-4 days otherwise- We are going to file a lawsuit under trademark infringement US law U.S.C. § 1063 section. (The totally random quoting and capitalisation doesn't make sense)

> As Redditsave.com misused the Media API and costs Bandwidth of Reddit servers, we need a "Compensation Penalty" of 1,000,000 or 1 Million American Dollars. (The totally random quoting and capitalisation doesn't make sense, and legalese wouldn't call it "American Dollars" imho)

> If you failed to pay the compensation will face strict verdict from USA Jurist section. (Gibberish)

> Then, We hardly advised to takedown the mentioned services also. (Gibberish)

In addition, I don't quite know how the bot works, but Reddit don't really obfuscate their video URLs (or use a "rolling cipher") -- it's a plain set of .mp4 links that you can access from looking at network requests in your web dev console. But even after that, you can just guess the mp4's URL from the "v.reddit.com" URL. Give it a go -- go to something like https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71, then try various bitrate combinations: https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71/DASH_720.mp4, https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71/DASH_480.mp4, https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71/DASH_240.mp4

SaveVideo is not open sourced I believe, but I'd guess they look at the video page, get the various bitrates from the settings (or just cycle through the limited options and see what doesn't 403/404), and just direct-link to those URLs. With this knowledge, the following charge in the PDF should've tipped them off as well.

> To our knowledge, the URLs indicated provide access to a service (and/or software) that circumvents Reddit's rolling cipher, a technical protection measure, that protects our members’ works on Reddit from unauthorized copying/downloading.