[chairface]

> If 'illegal' was as binary as you want to imply, then all penalties would be exactly the same

What a ridiculous statement, which bears absolutely no relation to what I said.

> This statement implies that UMG was making a deliberate effort to shut down MegaUpload's campaign

... That's because DMCA takedown notices require deliberate effort. Are you being intentionally obtuse?

[pyre]

  > That's because DMCA takedown notices require deliberate
  > effort. Are you being intentionally obtuse?

You've translated:

  > A DMCA take-down notice requires a statement under
  > penalty of perjury that the issuer has a good-faith
  > reason to believe that they are the owner of the
  > copyright in question.

Into meaning that the following two statements are equivalent:

  I want to take down this video because I want to stop
  MegaUpload's viral campaign because it could be damaging
  to my bottom line.

and

  This video has the name 'Snoop Dogg' in it so I'll send
  a take-down notice because I might own the copyrights to
  this, and I'm too lazy/over-worked to be bothered to
  check.

You say that the above statements are equivalent because the end result is the same (a video is wrongfully and illegally taken down).

If that is true, then you have to accept that nothing that you do in your life matters because you'll only end up dead. The end result is exactly the same.

[chairface]

More ridiculous drivel. The "end result" of my life will be substantially different, depending on how I affect the people around me. Do you have anything to say that's even slightly true?