If you don't like copyright or the DMCA, just say so. Making the risk of an action intended to be less heavyweight than formal legal proceedings so high that ev

If you don't like copyright or the DMCA, just say so. Making the risk of an action intended to be less heavyweight than formal legal proceedings so high that even legitimate rightsholders daren't try to enforce their rights is just blatant bias. Yes, DMCA-style takedown notices are used excessively by some actors, and yes there should be consequences for that, perhaps along the lines of losing the privilege for a period of time if their ratio of successful cases falls below a certain level. However, given how bad certain major hosting sites already are at responding to legitimate DMCA takedowns or their international counterparts from small rightsholders (been there, done that), the changes you propose would stack the deck even further towards the people who wilfully infringe and then straight-up lie about it in their counter-notices. Ultimately, unless you have the means and funding to bring a serious legal action internationally, these takedown laws have limited value anyway, but at least they don't actively act against the true rightsholder in cases of flagrant abuse.