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by chii 1092 days ago
Though you have now left a paper trail leading back to yourself, and leave yourself open to prosecution for computer fraud and such.

Not to mention a bogus DMCA takedown which has its own penalties.

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Has a bogus DMCA takedown ever resulted in actual punishments?
> Not to mention a bogus DMCA takedown which has its own penalties.

Does it? It'd be nice if penalties happened more often to the groups that spam out DMCA takedowns.

No trail leading to the DDoS attack, which would be executed by a botnet from compromised home computers, and paid for in bitcoin passed via a mixer, or something.