It’s easy to blame the platforms here, but this is just a symptom of the root problem. This will continue to be an issue as long as most art is controlled by litigious conglomerates trying to protect their cash cows.

The immediate fix is to fine the entities filing false DMCA claims, not the platforms enforcing them. The longer term fix is to take away power and control from these giant corporations and give it back to the artists.

> If you passed a law saying that twitch has to pay fines for false DMCA takedowns

You have to dig deeper, beyond the platforms themselves: make it extremely expensive and dangerous to file copyfraud claims. As long as the incentives are in favour of carpetbombing, you will have lots of casualties.

Repeating something I have said before, it feels to me the correct solution would be to go full Hammurabi on the perverse incentives. To eliminate the asymmetric warfare, one change would be enough. -- If a company, or an agent acting in their name, files a fraudulent copyright takedown, then the victim of that takedown gets to choose one item from that company's catalog that will become public domain. The company also becomes liable for all the lost [royalty] income for the creators of that particular item.

The point is not to eliminate takedowns or make them technologically less effective. Goal should be to eliminate the incentives on abusing them, and make the depletion of culture a bad default.

Public businesses are held to higher standards on choosing who to do business with than individuals, so why shouldn't monopolies be held to even higher standards? No secret takedowns, only allowed method is to follow the dmca law process, not take down whatever they want whenever they want. If they don't want to do that, then they can choose to not be a monopoly by raising prices significantly and leave room for competitors.