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by retree 5494 days ago
Correct me with I'm wrong - but I think all DMCA notices have to be electronically signed by a human under penalty of perjury.

Whilst I think only one or two people have been convicted of sending false DMCA notices, the penalties are stiff enough to not let a program sign DMCA notices on my behalf.

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So just pile up the infringing sites and put a "SEND" button next to them? Log in once a week, hit the "SEND ALL under penalty of perjury" button?
I wouldn't adopt this business model without an insanely good team of programmers... or an insanely good team of lawyers. Maybe even both.
The difficult bit is the finding though, not the verifying; use the code to do the finding and identifying, present both to the human who clicks the 'yes on penalty of perjury' button and you're done.
Which works out great until you screw up and mis-identify something, and then you've committed perjury...
Sorta like mortgages -- click 'we claim ownership' and call it done <g>.