[yieldcrv]

Yeah for the past decade I’ve had awesome results by not doing anything during a controversy, and then sending DMCA requests and other digital cleanup methods to every source a few weeks later

The idea was that people’s system caches would have deleted stuff by then, so anyone that noticed at that point couldn’t go resurrect to attempt to start a Streisand

Browsers and the internet are super different now, but the same concept generally applies: people only care if you seem to care.

[wbl]

You can only issue a DCMA request on behalf of the copyright holder. There is no takedown for butthurt.

[plorkyeran]

In practice you can issue DCMA requests for any reason and there are zero consequences for lying.

[yieldcrv]

Sometimes the controversy involves resyndication of copyrighted material

People don’t really care that much about their Streisand hopes to argue fair use or bother

But the presence of material makes it a legitimate DMCA request (not like legitimacy is enforced, but I cover my own bases at least)