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My mind could be playing tricks on me but my sense is that there is a surge in DMCA takedown requests. Has anyone seen anything that might explain the trend?

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It's not just you. In the last month:

- youtube-dl targeted by RIAA

- widevine decryption targeted by Google

- Google drops Google Play Music, which allowed custom uploads

- increase in Twitch takedowns

The RIAA seems to be emboldened. Google is singing to their tune, and now they're trying to get Amazon to do the same.

> Google drops Google Play Music, which allowed custom uploads

Google Play Music's successor, YouTube Music, also allows custom uploads.

Doesn't seem to work on older phones, I've had to make the jump to VLC.

Not well. They’re isolated in their own section of the app and don’t seamlessly integrate with included music like they did in Play Music.

On Twitch's point specifically, they claim:

> Until May of this year, streamers received fewer than 50 music-related DMCA notifications each year on Twitch. Beginning in May, however, representatives for the major record labels started sending thousands of DMCA notifications each week that targeted creators’ archives, mostly for snippets of tracks in years-old Clips.

Sounds like the marketers might smell money in the water with covid accelerating the amount of entertainment that people consume at home and online.

Without any functioning oversight bodies to look out for consumers' interests, why not unleash the sharks?

I think the RIAA is actually making Top40 music invisible to the internet. They will continue to blame the fall in revenue on piracy rather than their brain dead strategy of removing music from the Internet zeitgeist.

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