OP got in touch with one (or many) humans on Google. Humans then decided not to act on the DCMA request. No need for the "doesn't scale" argument, whatever sys

OP got in touch with one (or many) humans on Google. Humans then decided not to act on the DCMA request. No need for the "doesn't scale" argument, whatever system they have in place is already good enough to process OP's inquire. The problematic bit is what they decided to do once they had all the information in their hands. I do, however, think this is just a mishandled situation and Google will correct, particularly after being featured on the HN wall of shame.