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by yellowapple 1212 days ago
> but you can't sue them for that anyway, since there's no mens rea there.

"I don't know whether or not I own this intellectual property but I'm going to sic the DMCA on you anyway" is blatant negligence, at best. That our legal system doesn't consider that to be mens rea is one of a 3.7-mile-high stack of indictments against said legal system.