Consider the penalties given for a crime, and compare those to the penalties given when police or prosecutorial or judicial misconduct falsely, incompetently, o

Consider the penalties given for a crime, and compare those to the penalties given when police or prosecutorial or judicial misconduct falsely, incompetently, or corruptly imprisons someone for that crime. The latter are overwhelmingly more rare, but overwhelmingly larger. Society in general thinks false penalties for crimes are worse than the crime itself. "It is better that 10 guilty men go free, than that one innocent man should suffer." I think that if the penalty for copyright infringement is $250,000, the penalty for a false claim should be $2,500,000. You're right that a $100 low-effort, frequently-enforced counterclaim process would weed out ContentID bot farms (just like a $0.01/email transaction cost would weed out spam). But remember that the whole ecosystem is already ridiculous; if the pro-copyright MPAA/RIAA are pushing for $250k/infringement you have to be equally ridiculous to balance counterclaims.