But the disturbing thread running through all these requests is how easy it’s become for copyright trolls to leverage the DMCA to intimidate providers
I remember this issue being pointed out by the more vocal critics of the dmca when the bill was working its way through Congress. They warned that “remove first, ask questions later” would be abused by corporations in this exact manner with effectively no recourse for people who can’t afford a lawyer for every single time there victimized by a wrongful takedown request.
And here we are, decades later, and it’s been a problem this whole time.
I remember this issue being pointed out by the more vocal critics of the dmca when the bill was working its way through Congress. They warned that “remove first, ask questions later” would be abused by corporations in this exact manner with effectively no recourse for people who can’t afford a lawyer for every single time there victimized by a wrongful takedown request.
And here we are, decades later, and it’s been a problem this whole time.
That was always the intention of the law.
Ted Cruz and Amy Klobachar are pushing a bill that doesn’t even have that recourse.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/19/take-it-down-act-has-best-of-intentions-worst-of-mechanisms/
It’s got to be intentional, these people are lawyers and know exactly how the law works.