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> A good start would be to require that claimants must verify their real identity.

I GUARANTEE that if this were tried, "YOU CAN'T FILE A DMCA COMPLAINT WITHOUT A GOOGLE ACCOUNT!" would rocket to the front page here and cause a(nother) general freakout about privacy concerns.

Content hosts can't win here.

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Nobody mentioned requiring a Google account. That would be an absurd solution, since Google accounts are not real identities, either.

So... your solution is that Google implements authentication for DMCA takedowns using an authentication system that isn't Google's? Whose, then? Same headline, different villain. Probably still Google's fault somehow.

No, this is dumb and won't happen, for all the reasons that we yell about in other threads.

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