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by mangatmodi 1208 days ago
How come a compilation of pubic streams is eligible for DMCA? Lets wait to get the DMCA notice to be available, it could be either of following 1. Somebody mistakenly/intentionally added a malicious stream. 2. Or DMCA notice is fraud.

In my experience, it always the 2nd one. There are law firms and agencies randomly taking down stuff on internet with their faulty scripts and crawlers.

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People will DMCA anything. If some copyright monopolist gets offended by something on the internet it will get DMCA'd out of existence. Whether it's actually fair, just or even legal has no bearing whatsoever. They face no punishment for infringing other people's rights with frivolous claims because you'd have to prove they deliberately acted in bad faith and even that would require people to hire expensive lawyers to do it. In other words, they can leverage the justice system to arbitrarily silence others and then hide behind incompetentence and indiscrimination as an excuse.