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Imagine you did this and ended up in court. If you admit you lied on the DMCA request, you'd be admitting to perjury. If you continue to claim to be the cracker
by elil17 3y ago
Imagine you did this and ended up in court. If you admit you lied on the DMCA request, you'd be admitting to perjury. If you continue to claim to be the cracker, Rockstar could sue you for damages from IP theft.
- qingcharles 3y agoPerjury is only if you make a statement under oath knowing it to be a lie. The DMCA doesn't require you by statute to tell the truth. As long as you tell the truth under oath on the witness stand, if it got that far, then you'd be fine from a criminal prosecution perspective. Of course, you'd probably get counter-sued for a number of civil torts for being a fuckhead.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIt does. Each DMCA requires “A statement that the information in the complaint is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.”
- PeterisP 3y agoEspecially do note that you could lie on all the other parts of the complaint, such as the issue whether the violation actually occurred, but the one thing that's under the penalty of perjury is whether you're actually representing the copyright owner.
- elil17 3y agoWhat you said is not true. The text of the law specifically clarifies that a false DMCA takedown request is perjury.