But it does imply DMCA can't be used to go after people that do. DMCA is the only tool people that wish to stop distribution of media have, so it might as well

But it does imply DMCA can't be used to go after people that do. DMCA is the only tool people that wish to stop distribution of media have, so it might as well be a blanket statement of legal distribution IMO, and archive.org certainly interprets it this way.