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Re:Amazon Targets YouTube with New Online Video Posting Service by icebraining on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:28AM (#11674052)
But even if you kicked them out of ContentID, they'd still be able to send regular DMCA takedown requests, and as far as I know there's no provision that allows Google to ignore those from "problematic claimants".
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Re:Amazon Targets YouTube with New Online Video Posting Service by blakeyrat on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:53PM (#11678677)
At least forcing DMCA requests would make it a crime of perjury. Right now, a false ContentID claim is no crime and carries no penalty.
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Re:Amazon Targets YouTube with New Online Video Posting Service by icebraining on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:07PM (#11680123)
Yes, but nobody ever was convicted of perjury for sending fake DMCA takedown requests, despite evidence of companies using dumb scrapers that auto-send takedowns for anything with the same name as their work, so does it really count as a deterrent?
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Re:Amazon Targets YouTube with New Online Video Posting Service by blakeyrat on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:46PM (#11685323)
I don't know. I'd like to see them try it, because screw ContentID scammers.

I'm sure it would scare at least some percentage of them away.

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