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Somebody presented the idea here on HN the other day about $1 fines - both for individuals and for the music copyright abusers.

The nice thing about this IMO is 1$ is a small amount for me and you, but for a big corporation like sony this will cost them thousands every time it gets invoked (because legal will probably get involved).

Of course it needs to be slightly more advanced I guess but it would be a good start.

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At most one guy from finance will be involved to rubber stamp the budget for the quarter.

I don't think so. The idea that they should pay anything back will probably be very hard for them to wrap their head around. ;-)

No, it won’t. Corporations understand the phrase “cost of doing business.” If you want fines to deter corporate wrongdoers, they have to be substantial relative to the company’s profits or revenue.

This is probably a good idea, but it's not really implementable. Google isn't a law enforcement entity, so they are probably not in a position to fine anyone.

And IANAL, but charging for claims is probably not allowed by DMCA.

ContentID has absolutely nothing to do with DMCA takedown notices, especially in a legal sense.

Private groups can levy fines. They can raise the costs of ads for these publishers on their platform, take a portion of the revenue from their content, or simply cease doing business with them until it's paid.

For example, late fees on unreturned video cassettes.

Google can ban youtubers for breaching a threshold of community guidelines.

Apply the same to process to incorrect flagging of copyrighted content. Break the rules, prevent Sony from uploading for a day or two (or some other functionality).

This will never be implemented because there is a symbiosis between a mega content creator and an advertising company.

Sanctioning a producer like Sony would be a sanction against google itself.

I'm afraid the little people will have to suck it up.

Or, decentralize, and stop being controlled.

I agree. I'm going to give Mastodon a try.

https://mastodon.social/about

They might use a computer with possibly AI to handle it. So the procedure must involve something like a CAPTCHA or human-human-interaction to be effective.

All divisions, subsidiaries and parent organisations lose all their copyrights for any false claim.

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