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I'm curious if anyone besides the copyright lobby actually has any substantive gripes with DMCA safe harbor provisions. Do we really need an alternate approach,

I'm curious if anyone besides the copyright lobby actually has any substantive gripes with DMCA safe harbor provisions. Do we really need an alternate approach, or does the one we have now work well? I don't think I've heard any legitimate complaints about DMCA safe harbors. I don't consider the MPAA's panicked "but people are still downloading movies!!!!!" legitimate.

skymt 15y ago
The main problem with DMCA safe harbor in my eyes is that it's too easy to abuse as a censorship tool. According to Google[1] in 2009, 57% of DMCA takedown requests they received were targeting competitors, and 37% were invalid. In 2008 the Church of Scientology took down[2] over 4000 YouTube videos critical of their religion and organization. I've yet to hear of a DMCA abuser prosecuted for perjury. 1: http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/93FEDCEF6636CF90CC25757A0072B4B7 http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/93FEDCEF6636CF9... 2: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/massive-takedown-anti-scientology-videos-youtube https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/massive-takedown-anti-...