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No. Companies have a legally defensible narrative:

    1. People were using Rhinna's songs without permission in large numbers.

    2. The company wrote a program to automatically send out a takedown notice to violators

    3. Whoops, the program made a mistake. We didn't mean to.
If you, dalore, write a takedown bot, it's obvious from the start you are acting in bad faith because there is no epidemic of people pirating dalore songs.

I do think that companies here are "acting in good faith" in so much as I do not think they are misrepresenting their intentions. I don't think Sony has a conspiracy to increase it's revenue by monetizing Minecraft gamer channels.

However, the law is written in such a way that there is no penalty for companies that write low precision, high recall, dumpster-fire grade take-down bot software.



How many times do you think step 3 has to be repeated before they're no longer able to claim good faith?

More on this topic: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/responding-dmca-take...




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