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This is also a great way to get sued for perjury and be made as an example that citizens should not challenge their representatives in such ways.

That's the whole point, to get them to reform the law, or to set courtroom precedent against spurious claims, while they're forced to take the position of its victims instead of continuing to side with the more well-funded perpetrators.

Purposely filing notices as a protest is indisputably bad-faith. That's not going to set any precedent against bad-faith notices with a veneer of plausible deniability.

Isn't there a consequence for making frivolous or baseless DMCA takedowns?

I mean there should be given the amount done on e.g. youtube, but if you obviously don't own copyright on something, it'll be considered malicious and you'd get prosecuted yourself.

People could just post hackerrank problem answers to congressmen's pages and wait.

> Isn't there a consequence for making frivolous or baseless DMCA takedowns?

In theory yes, in practice no

Nah, they'll just exempt "official government content" from the takedown process.