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Comment by lousken | Hacker News Reader

can we start permanently banning companies that submit false-positive takedown requests? 3 strikes for them should result in not being able to submit any strikes anymore and all their content being removed

if the content creator can get their channel removed, same thing must apply to the opposite side as well

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You can just create a new company. There is an asymmetry there which your tit for tat approach does not take into consideration. And no, creating a new channel requires far more work.

I don't mean banning the company which does the takedown submission, I mean the company that actually owns the copyright. That would result in companies being a lot more vary in terms of whom to trust with such job.

So if I make 3 bogus takedown requests based on stairway to heaven's copyright being violated, no one can make copyright strikes based on stairway to heaven?

if you have the rights for the song and it's a bogus claim, yes

When I first saw this I was reminded of the Mend it Mark copyright takedown event where he fixed and documented a phono preamp and the maker of that preamp filed a copyright take down against the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI

I know that it's rather opaque, but I'm pretty certain Google does basic reputation tracking. When they manually revert this, the ChainPatrol account won't have as much power.

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