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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by dotancohen on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:33PM (#25004333) 

  > - The original DMCA request isn't under penalty of perjury, but the reply is.
  > - The original DMCA request doesn't require a copyright to be held, only a "good faith belief" that it infringes.
  > - The duration of 14 days may have made sense in 1998, with large companies being the only media producers, but now that takes a video down for several times the duration of interest, effectively killing it.
I'm going to remember those points, especially the first. That is the real problem, in my opinion.
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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by MereInterest on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:22PM (#25004866)
Also, from wikipedia, it looks like I was slightly mistaken. The initial claim is partly until the penalty of perjury, but only that they are authorized to act for the copyright holder. The statement on it being infringement requires only a good faith belief, and is not under penalty of perjury.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...

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