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I disagree with you.

These people seem to be fine with taking out perfectly legit content from the internet because they haven't done their research properly. This impacts the hard work so many people have put in, but the complainant hasn't broken the law. The comment you were replying to hasn't broken any laws either.

The DMCA take down system is flawed, and invalid take downs should be penalized at $x.xx per blocked request.

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Invalid takedowns are perjury and are subject to criminal penalties to a maximum of five years in jail.

For some reason, the US prosecutors don't seem to be enforcing it.

Maybe no one complained to them, so technically they're not aware? I'm not sure how that works.

Note that the "under penalty of perjury" bit applies to your claim that you're an authorized agent of the copyright holder, not the allegation that a particular bit of content is infringing.

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