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Unlike the DMCA takedown, the "strike" is by no means required by any laws. That's just Shopify choosing to penalize takedown recipients without doing any inves

• bdw5204 3y ago
  The idea of "strikes" is pretty standard in the US from the 90s era "3 strikes" crime laws (i.e. commit 3 crimes and you get life without parole; these have generally been repealed in the last 5-10 years or so) that were inspired by the rules of baseball where the batter is out after 3 unsuccessful swings or hittable pitches he didn't swing at. It isn't a good system but Youtube in particular was loaded with pirated content in the early days before Google invented automated copyright moderation so they most likely needed to do something drastic to delete pirate accounts to avoid legal trouble with the copyright lobby and everybody else just copied the idea as a "best practice".
• mdasen 3y ago
  It is kinda required. The DMCA requires you to implement a policy for terminating repeat copyright infringers. You aren't required to call them "strikes", but you have to keep track of who is a repeat infringer and terminate their account. You have some leeway in how you implement it, but you do need to take action against repeat infringers. As such, any infringement that doesn't get overturned will end up as a strike against you (whether it's called a strike or not).