It is the reason for the existence of the dmca. Now I take a rather dim view of the dmca. But the general concept is to move enforcement of the law out of the

It is the reason for the existence of the dmca. Now I take a rather dim view of the dmca. But the general concept is to move enforcement of the law out of the normal slow bureaucratic channels. Now enforcement is handled directly by the injured party. Much more efficient. If you immediately see how ripe for abuse this system is. congratulations. you are now more far sighted than the originators of this system. Now to it's credit, the dmca limits the enforcement(I think, I have never read the law) to a formalized version of "if you stop doing it we won't press charges" however this is still widely abused.